Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Mogadishu, Somalia (APA) - At least 6 civilians have been killed and more than 15 were wounded on Wednesday morning is clashes between Somali Islamist rebels and AU solders in Somalia, witnesses said today here.
The fighting began when Islamist fighters attacked the African peace keepers’ base in the capital, then triggering heavy fighting followed shelling.
Residents said that heavy shelling was coming from the bases of AU peace keepers in Mogadishu after the clash.
“I witnessed three civilians were killed in the battle,” Hassan Omar, resident in bakro market said.
“They died when shell landed on the village,” he added.
“You can’t imagine what happened in early morning of this day,” he said.
Another resident said that he witnessed the two dead bodies in Maka Al-Mukarma road, the sole street Somali government uses.
Al-Shabab, a Somali militant group that controls most of south and central Somali, have been waging insurgent attacks to the UN-backed fragile government and AU peace keepers known as (AMISOM) in Mogadishu, and they vowed to remove the more moderate president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
Somali has not had strength functioning central government since 1991, when gang Somali warlord ousted former dictator president, Mohamed Siad Barre.
Source: APA, Oct 28, 2009