Somalia: Daybreak bombardment in Mogadishu kills 23

More than 20 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday morning and over 50 wounded after, an exchange of heavy and light machineguns between the Somalia government soldiers backed by their African union ally.

The fighting occurred when the Islamists who are fighting against the Somali government and the AU peacekeepers raided at basses of the government soldiers and the Adan Ade international airport which is heavily guarded by the African Union troops.

The Somali President Shariff was taking off from the airport at the time when the Islamists have raided at the airport to attend the ongoing conference in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

In response to the attacks of the insurgents the African Union troops responded with heavy shelling at place where they militarily focused is coming from the attack.

The places where the African Union troops shell after the shelling at the airport by the insurgents include the Hodan, Bakara intersection and have killed several civilians in these places, and the highest number of civilians have died at Bakara bazaar.

“Under a concrete building where we thought that we can be safe, a missile has penetrated, and have killed more than 10 people and wounded 7 others, in fact I was shocked and could not even help them, but fortunately an ambulance has arrived and collected the wounded people who wasting litters of blood, and rushed with them to the hospital” said Abdifatah Mohamed a shop owner in Bakara market speaking to Somaliweyn radio.

Normally when fighting takes place in Somali the victims are none other than the civilians.

Shaaficiyah Media