Mogadishu - Somali government forces on Sunday opened fire on the streets of the volatile capital Mogadishu killing at least seven civilians, residents said.
Several others were wounded in the shootings in Hawlwadag and Wardhigley districts in southern Mogadishu, where soldiers had been on patrol, witnesses said.
It was unclear why the soldiers opened fire.
They killed five civilians at a bus stop near the main Bakara market, eyewitness Ali Hassan Aden said.
'They were killed as they crossed the road'
"The five bodies are still lying on the ground in the area and no one can collect them because the government forces are still shooting," Asha Aden Yusuf said shortly afterwards from the market.
A correspondent said two others civilians had been killed in Wardhigley district, bringing the death toll to seven.
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