Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Hassan Osman Abdi
30 October 2009
Mogadishu — At least three government soldiers have been killed and several others including civilians have been wounded after land mine explosion targeted to government soldiers' vehicle in Mogadishu, witnesses officials told Shabelle radio on Friday.
Locals said that the blast was targeted to a government soldiers' truck as it was traveling around El-qalow neighborhood in Wadajir district in south of the capital Mogadishu killing three government troops, wounding more others.
Eyewitness told Shabelle radio that more government troops had reached at the scene after the explosion saying that they opened fire to the more civilians who were around where blast occurred adding that they wounded two young teenagers who were near the area.
Hussein Botan Hassan, a deputy district commissioner of Wadajir district in Banadir region confirmed Shabelle radio that three of their men had been killed in the blast denying that the soldiers opened fire to the civilians or killed any one there.
"The government soldiers who reached here made operations at our neighborhood (El-qalow)," one witnesses said. The young people run away from the soldiers for fears to be detained for the blast, he added.
Nevertheless the situation of the El-qalow neighborhood returned normal and the explosion is part of several blasts which often targeted to the government soldiers and the African Union troops ( AMISOM ) in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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