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Somalia: Heavy Explosion jolted
Galkayo town overnight
Mogadishu Tuesday 10 November 2009 Shaaficiyah Media
Heavy explosion has overnight rocked south
of Galkayo town the capital of Mudug province at around 7:25pm
local time.
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 havent
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
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