Monday, June 4, 2007

Ethiopia: One killed as troops attacked in Mogadishu

Mon. June 04, 2007 06:49 pm.- By Bonny Apunyu. -


(SomaliNet) After an explosive device went off near an Ethiopian military post in the south of the Somalia capital, killing at least one person while wounding another on Sunday in gunshots Somali capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses said.

"I heard a loud explosion and ensuing intense gunshots. Then, when we came out of our house we found a dead man lying in the street not far from where the Ethiopians were," Yonis Abdulkadir, a nephew of the deceased, told Xinhua.

The Ethiopian soldiers, stationed in Huruwa district in the south of the city, cordoned off the area and blocked traffic and started house-to-house searches in the surrounding neighborhood for weapons and suspected insurgents.

A pharmacist in the neighborhood, Ali Mudie, said one severely wounded women was sent to his pharmacy in Huruwa district for treatment.

However, no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack and neither the Ethiopian military nor the Somali government issued any comment on the incident.




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