(SomaliNet) At least two civilians have been injured in a mortar attack that happened in Wada-jir district in southwest of Somalia capital Mogadishu on later Thursday. It is the second attack in two consecutive days. Abdikarin Osman, local resident told Somalinet that the attack took place around Macmacanka area in Wadajir district about 8:15 pm tonight local time. “Shortly after I heard the sounds of explosions I went the area that was hit by two mortar shells, I can confirm that two persons were wounded in the blast,” Osman told Somalinet by the telephone. “The mortars fell into two civilian houses,”
It is not yet clear who carried out the latest attack. It came day after mortar attack targeted at the main Mogadishu airport injuring four civilians. All these seemed to be acts done by Islamist insurgents that are hiding inside the capital. |