Mogadishu — Maj. Brighye Bahuko, the spokesman of the African Union troops AMISOM has Thursday denied the heavy shelling targeted to Bakara, the biggest market in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

More than 30 people were killed and 70 others injured after the Islamist fighters and AMISOM troops exchanged heavy shelling in more different neighborhoods in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Mr. Bohuko said in an interview with Shabelle radio that they did not involve the bitter shelling which murdered more civilians in Bakara market and several neighborhoods around the market which caused more casualties of deaths, wounds and loss of property pointing out the mortar shells were from were he described north of the capital where he said that fighting between Islamists continued.

The spokesman said that they did not also hear any sound of weapons which continued in Mogadishu today reiterating that every body knew that fighting between Islamist fighters continued in north of the capital pointing out that those shelling had caused the casualties in Bakara market saying that they will take the responsibility.

Asked about the heavy weapons like PM from the military bases of AMISOM troops in Mogadishu which left more lives, the AU troops' spokesman maj. Brighye Bohuko replied that they knew nothing about it.

Lasting the spokesman has replied the accusations for being behind the shelling which targeted to more residential areas in Mogadishu including Baraka market saying that they were not totally involved it pointing out that it was not also the first time to be blamed them.

On the other hand Sheik Muse Abdi Arale, the secretary of the Islamic organization of Hizbul Islam who is in parts of Hiran region in central Somalia told Shabelle radio that the African Union troops AMISOM were those who were the mastermind of Thursday's shelling which killed more civilians in Bakara market and the other neighborhoods in the capital.

Mr. Arale had harshly condemned the AMSIOM troops for annihilating the Somali people in Mogadishu.

The statement of the AMSOM troops' spokesman maj. Brighye Bohuko comes as residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu confirmed that they could hear the sound of heavy shelling from the bases of the African Union troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu.