Heavy Explosion jolted Galkayo town overnight 091110

So far according to reliable sources which Somaliweyn radio is receiving from the ground confirms 23 wounded persons including the sentries of a certain hotel which the Somali police chief General Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid was residing.

Instantly after the blast the security personnel of Galmudug state had arrived at the scene and cordoned off the entire streets on in the town.

“in fact the blast was too big that its sound was heard almost the entire sections of the town, I was in a place not far as such from where the blast occurred in fact the ground beneath me even has made vibration, since it was the beginning of the night I could not dear to go out of where I was in simply I can be mistaken as the doer so I remained in doors till the situation has returned to normal, later on I was told that the explosion was a grenade which was hurled at Embassy Hotel where the Somali Police commissioner General Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydid has arrived in the afternoon, but missed its target and hit just a place not far in distance wise from the main gate of and scores of people were wounded in blast including some of the sentries at the gate, I haven’t yet known if there is any death” said Ahmed Muse a resident in Galkayo town speaking to Somaliweyn radio. Apart from the Somali police chief there were some other top dignitres from the Somali Federal Government in the Hotel.

These Somali government officials have been lately touring in some parts of Puntland and Galmudug states, but their main objective was to advice and wrap-up a training course for Somali policemen at Armo location in Puntland state.

Shaaficiyah Media