Sunday, January 07, 2007
They also said that three women were wounded after unknown attackers threw a grenade in their house hours after a teenage boy was shot when Ethiopian and Somali forces opened fire to disperse anti-Ethiopian protesters.
"The man was going to his house when gunmen opened fire on him. He was left dead at the scene. He had a mobile phone and a pistol with him but they took nothing from him, so I think it was not robbery. It was a kind of assassination," said Mohamed Sheik Adulahi, a neighbor of the deceased.
"This man... was a trainer for the Islamic courts, he used to train militia for the Islamists, but I don?t know why they killed him," said Abdukadar Hersi, a resident of Mogadishu's southern Hero-Jarmal district where the incident occurred.
The three women were wounded after their house in the capital's northern Yakshid came under a grenade attack.
"I heard explosion and minutes later people shouting, I came to the scene and I saw three wounded women from the same family," Mohamed Deeq Ali, a Yakshid resident told AFP. "We don?t know the exact reason, but I think it was a previous family feud."
Mogadishu has seen a rise in violence since the arrival of the Ethiopia-backed Somali governemnt forces. The troops forced the Islamists out of the capital which they had seized from warlords in June and established a semblance of order and security by enforcing strict Sharia law.
On Saturday, hundreds of residents rallied to protest against the presence of the Ethiopian forces, throwing stones at a patrol vehicle and leading to the soldiers opening fire and killing a 13-year-old boy.
The Islamists, now holed up in a remote area in the south of Somalia near the Kenyan border, have vowed a guerrilla war against the Ethiopians.
Source: AFP, Jan 07, 2007