(SomaliNet) Fierce gun battle has renewed Yaqshid district, north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Monday night between the Somali government forces and the repel insurgents hours after two government soldiers were gunned in a market place of the district this morning. The latest fighting began around 10:00pm local time at El-Tuba-Weyne and Towfiq village of Yaqshid district as the rival sides were exchanging heavy gunfire and artillery fires, according to residents. There is no immediate casualty on the warring sides as the fighting was still continuing. The night time gun battle started when heavily armed Islamic militants fired mortar rounds on the positions of the government soldiers.
Mogadishu, a city which two-third of its population fled for their lives due to the ongoing fighting, now at the crossroad of endless crisis with more Ethiopians are pouring to encounter the rising insurgency from the supporters of the ousted ICU.
This morning, local militants armed with pistols have shot dead a government soldier in the north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
There has been rising insurgency campaign against the transitional government and its allied forces of Ethiopia since the Islamic Court Union which controlled much of southern and central Somalia lost power late last year.
Meanwhile, two Somali policemen were wounded when unknown men threw a grenade into the police a station at Baladweyn town in central Somalia on Monday night. These two policemen were standing at the main entrance of the station by the time of the explosion and the attackers escaped the area immediately after the carried out the action.