Heavy shelling kills more than 30, injures 70 others in Mogadishu
Posted: 10/22/2009 11:13:00 AM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network ) – More than 30 people have been killed and 70 others have been injured after the Islamist fighters and AMISOM troops exchanged heavy shelling in more different neighborhoods in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials said on Thursday.
Most of the areas landing the shelling were the neighborhoods of Hodan and Hwl-wadag districts in Mogadishu where the warring sides used very heavy weapons which the people said that it was not heard in the capital recently causing more casualties of deaths, injuries and loss of properties.
Officials of the emergency traffic in Mogadishu told reporters that they had seen the bodies 11 people adding they took 29 wounded civilians to the hospitals in Mogadishu
Reports say that shelling started at around the international airport of Aden Adde, a base of the African Union troops after the transitional government soldiers and AMSIOM troops had jointly blocked Mekka Al-mukara
street, a key road that connects the presidential palace and Km4 in Mogadishu as TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed was supposed to fly from the airport.
The movement of the traffic, business and people was halted during the shelling of Thursday morning and locals said that constant shelling from the side of AMSIOM troops landed into more various sites in Hodan and Hawl-wadag district in Mogadishu like Bakara market, Kpp, Barmudo and several other zones which heavily affected the shelling that was reaction for the one which targeted to the international airport.
A shell that hit in a concrete building in Bakara market has killed at least 6 wounding 8 others as more people were hiding inside the building as the shelling re-exploded there.
Eyewitness said that the pieces of dead bodies could also be seen in many areas in the Somali capital Mogadishu which the shelling affected and murdered more civilians.
Residents said that Thursday’s shelling seemed as it was raining in Bakara market and most of the people died and wounded were in Bakara, the biggest market in southern Somalia saying that AMSIOM troops used their heavies weapons like PM for today’s shelling which resulted the greatest casualties of the civilians especially the market in the recent days.
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Whatever amisom kills is because xisbul kufr & shabaab were responsible for firing mortars from residential areas. So blame those who are afraid to confront amisom in places free from citizens. Looks like shabaab & xisbul shaytan doesnt care about civilians at all.
