Monday, September 03, 2007
Gunmen pursued and killed two people in southern Mogadishu's Bakara market, one of the city's most volatile areas, said Hassan Abdullahi Yarisow, a grocer who witnessed the killings.
A school teacher was also shot dead in the same area, said Adan Mohamed, his colleague.
The incidents come a day after Somalia's parliament summoned police chief Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid, National Security Agency chief Mohamed Warsame Darwish and Mayor Mohamed Said Habeb to explain their efforts to halt the unrest.
Since Ethiopian and Somali troops ousted an Islamist militia that briefly controlled large parts of the country early this year, Mogadishu has seen near-daily guerrilla-style attacks against government targets.
Violent crime targeting civilians has also increased in the city, officials say.
Somali forces backed by Ethiopians troops and African Union peacekeepers have failed to quell the insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives and choked off the delivery of aid to displaced civilians in and around the capital.
Source: AFP, Sept 03, 2007