Five civilians are reported to have died and thirty five others wounded Sunday evening in a grenade explosion that took place in Jijiga, the capital of Somali Regional State. A statement issued by police in the region yesterday said that the hand grenades were thrown into three hotels at around 8:30 P.M. Following the explosion, the wounded were rushed to hospitals of which five died immediately after they arrived at the Karamara Hospital. Yesterday, some 35 were reported to have survived the explosion with minor and serious injuries.The regional state condemned the incident as a "terrorist attack" committed against civilians at a time where eligible voters of the region were to be registered for the remaining 23 parliamentary seats of the Federal government and regional parliamentary seats of the Somali regional state. It added that the incident will never affect the upcoming election and called up on the residents to register to cast their vote in the election scheduled to take place in August.