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| Six killed in Mogadishu grenade attacks |
| 2007-07-17 |
| (SomaliNet) Six people and one government soldier have been killed and dozen others wounded in bomb blasts in the besieged Bakara market in Mogadishu today – as the reconciliation conference has been postponed to Thursday following mortar shelling near the conference venue. The targets of the today’s bomb attacks were government soldiers but caused more casualties on the civilians, according to the local residents. The transitional federal government soldiers indiscriminately sprayed bullets to the civilians in what looks like a response to the bomb attacks. All the roads either entering or leaving the biggest market are sealed off by the TFG soldiers after the explosions. “We have a problem with the constants blasts in the market as it is the only life line to the residents of the city,” said a local shopkeeper adding that “I have not opened my shop for the fourth day,” Medina hospital, which is the only referral hospital, is stretched to the limit with wounded civilians in the latest round of violence. 25 civilians have been killed in bomb attacks and shootouts in and around Bakara market since the TFG soldiers began ringing it off two weeks ago. Local militants in Somalia have vowed to continue the strings of the attacks on the TFG soldiers and government installations in the capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |