Akhbaar

The attack occurred at exactly 11:45pm local time and the attackers faced challenge from the sentries of WFP who were by then in full alert and denied access for the gunmen.

Both the attackers and the attacked have exchanged fire which has been in action for 30 minutes, and three of the gunmen have been killed in the crossfire while two others were seriously wounded, but so far there are no reports of casualties from both the WFP staff and their sentries.

“The clash occurred when everybody in the town was in soundless sleep, but woken up by the sounds of the bullets which unidentified gunmen and WFP guards were exchanging in fact I could not exactly know the fighting was between who and, and remained in my houses since it was midnight, but when the day broke I went to downtown to know about what was happening overnight the first person whom I met was a friend of mine who has given me a brief information about what was taking place in the night, and told me to go and see for myself the corpses of 3 men who were among the raiders of WFP compound, I went towards WFP complex, and have seen the 3 men for myself though their bodies were later taken to Wajid police station where they are now, and the wounded 2 are expected to be taken to Baidoa were they will go under treatment” said Eden Nurow a resident in Wajid district

Wajid is 90km north of Baidoa town the previous seat of the Somali government and it is under the authority of Al-Shabab.

Some months ago the Islamists Al-Shabab has said that all UN agencies should vacate wherever they are controlling, because they said that all UN agencies are emissaries for the western countries and are spying for them.

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