Hiiraan Online
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The fighting was mainly concentrated along the Makka al-Mukarrama street. During the fighting, areas that have come under shelling include the districts of Hodan and Howlwadaag. These two districts take the brunt of shelling whenever fighting occurs in Mogadishu. About ten people have been confirmed injured who have been taken to area hospitals by ambulances.
The fighting which lasted for short period of time comes at a day when two suicide bombers using two white vehicles with UN logos, but packed with explosives have struck at an African Union peacekeepers' base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The suicide missions follow Monday’s U.S. commando operation that reportedly killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern Somalia. The commando operation has triggered an angry response from Islamist rebels fighting the nation's U.N.-backed government who vowed to revenge the death of their colleagues.
An Islamist al-Shabab spokesman told Reuters news agency the attacks were in revenge for a US raid which reportedly killed an al-Qaeda suspect this week.