(SomaliNet) One person was killed and two others were wounded in grenade explosion which occurred in Suuqa-Xoolaha village of Huriwa district, north of the Somalia capital overnight – as the Ethiopian forces along with their Somali counterparts on Friday morning launched massive search operations in parts of the capital targeting particular houses in former dairy factory. A witnesses told Somalinet that an unknown gunman hurled a grenade bomb at a tea-shop where a group of residents were relaxing. It is not clear why the man targeted the civilians when there were no government soldiers there. In Hodan district, south of the capital, a local militant threw a hand grenade bomb at government soldiers in Black Sea junction overnight. There was no immediate casualty on the soldiers as the attacker escaped unharmed. The security forces sealed off the area of the blast and it is hard for journalists find out the casualty.
In Wadajir district, west of the capital, three civilians were wounded when an armed man opened fire on residents resting outside of their houses, witnesses confirmed to Somalinet. All the wounded were taken to Medina hospital where one of them died of the injury. It is not known why these people were attacked.
The latest incidents came as the local insurgents supporting the ousted Islamic Courts vowed to continue the attacks against what they called ‘the puppet government and its Ethiopian ally forces’.