(SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen, presumably supporters of the ousted Islamists have launched mortar attack at the main port in Mogadishu, the Somalia capital over midnight. No casualties have been reported from the latest attack. It is the second mortar attack carried out by the insurgent groups in a week. Last night’s attack was aimed at the Ethiopian forces stationing at the seaport. Local residents say the attack happened around 3:45 am local time just shortly before the dawn when everyone in Mogadishu was asleep at the time. “We could hear six rounds of mortar shells that slammed near the seaport but caused no casualty,” Ali Hassan, one of the residents near the port told Somalinet. No one has claimed responsibility of the latest attack. Residents near the seaport said heavy exchanges of automatic gunfire followed the mortar attacks. The rocket attacks came as a fuel tanker docked at the port, unloading barrels of patrol and diesel.
Artillery explosions aimed at the government and Ethiopian military positions in and around the capital have risen since the government settled Mogadishu late December last year. The secular government raised suspicion in the deadly nightly attacks against its forces Ethiopian military bases. Some reports say that officials belonging to the government might be behind the nighttime attacks at the bases of the Ethiopian troops.