(SomaliNet) Three people died when government soldiers armed with pistols clashed with local insurgents inside the main Bakara market on Tuesday, local security official said According to the police spokesman Abdiwahid Mohamed Mohamed Hussein, one of the dead people was a police man while the two other were militants. "We have lost one soldier but the out of uniform troops killed two of the insurgents," said Mohamed adding that the government designed these kind of soldiers dressed as civilians to fight the militants who always hunt the individuals in the market. Witnesses told Somalinet that the government troops exchanged minutes of gunfire with the group of insurgents inside the market that led all the business shops closed. Also two civilians have been killed and four others were wounded in several grenades which exploded inside the main Bakara market. The grenades were thrown at policemen who were patrolling the market but missed the target and caused civilian casualty. Medical sources say that up to ten civilians were wounded today alone in the clashes as the civilians became victims for the violence in the capital.
Meanwhile, around SOS mother and child hospital in north of the city, the government soldiers clashed with the supporters of the ousted Islamic Courts Union. There is no immediate casualty from that gun battle which lasted for while, as residents say.