Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
5 July 2008
Mogadishu — A road side bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed the deputy commisioner of Yaqshid neighborhood in the Somali capital Mogadishu Saturday, the commissioner said.
As the commissioner of Yaqshid neighborhood, Mohyadin Jurus told Shabelle. at least four Somali government soldiers were also killed in the roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle escorting the deputy commissioner of Yaqhid district, that is to say Hassan Elmi Abtidon in the Jira Garob area of the capital, Mogadishu.
His wife with him in the car was also killed in the blast.
The explosion ripped through his military truck as it passed through in the similar Yaqshid neighborhood as witnesses confirmed to Shabelle.
Somali government security forces cordoned off the area of the blast and carried out searches for suspected Islamists.
The vehicle was completely burnt by the huge blast that rocked the northern part of the capital where many of the residents sought refuge as it was relatively calmer than other areas of the Mogadishu.
Somali government officials were not readily available for comment on the latest attack and no group has so far claimed responsibility for the blast but the rebels opposed to the government and the presence of foreign forces in Somalia carry out near daily attacks on Somali and Ethiopian troops.
The Somali transitional government and the a faction of the opposition coalition, the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS), signed a peace deal early this month but another faction of ARS and the hard-line Islamist group Al-shabaab boycotted the talks in Djibouti and rejected the agreement reached there.
They vowed to continue their fight against Somali government security forces and the Ethiopian troops backing them. Under the agreement Ethiopian troops would withdraw in 120 days after the deployment of "a sufficient number of UN force."
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2008 Shabelle Media Network. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
