Fire – Africa – Somalia
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EDIS Number: FR-20100804-27275-SOM
Date / time: 04/08/2010 16:23:42 [UTC]
Event: Fire
Area: Africa
Country: Somalia
State/County: Capital City
City: Mogadishu
Number of Deads: 5 persons
Number of Injured: 20 persons
Damage level: Minor
Description:
Bitter shelling targeted to Bakara market in Mogadishu killed about 5, wounding more than 20 others, witnesses said told Shabelle radio on Tuesday evening. Ali Muse Sheik, the official of the emergency traffic confirmed to Shabelle radio that they took more people from various places in the market adding that there were died bodies of civilians they had seen at the spots they took from the injuries. It is not known the reason of the shelling and there was no fighting in Mogadishu mainly the war zones close to the market. Other reports from the north of the capital say that both rivals, Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen and the troops of the transitional government of Somalia with AMISOM had been using and exchanging shell fires in north of the capital Mogadishu. There were no casualties reported so far. Most of the clashes, shelling in the capital cause civilian casualties of deaths and injuries in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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