(SomaliNet) At least five people were wounded in a shootout by soldiers of the transitional federal government when a bomb exploded in Mogadishu’s main Bakara market, near the buildings of the privately owned telecommunication companies – as the capital of Somalia is under massive search operations for the fourth day. A local eyewitness told Somalinet that the blast was caused by a hand grenade bomb which was thrown to government soldiers who were in operation in parts of Bakara market. There is no immediate casualty on the soldiers but shots they fired caused the injury of five civilians who were around the site of the blast. Reliable sources say that the government soldiers received casualty from the latest bomb attack.
No cars and people are allowed to use the road of Wadnaha which passes side Bakara market, the target for the current on going search operations for weapons and suspects.
Meanwhile, Mogadishu is now getting deeper into violence as gun shots and explosions could be heard in every corner of the southern parts of the capital. The government soldiers are allegedly firing shots to every direction indiscriminately and continue looting the business areas, according to some sources.