Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
5 November 2009
Mogadishu — At least two people have been killed and three others have been wounded in Mogadishu after clash between police soldiers and gunmen dressing soldiers' uniform started at Zobe intersection in the capital, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Locals said that the two people who died in the fighting between the police forces and the gunmen were the manager of Nasa-hablood hotel in Mogadishu and another man who was a driver and was with the manager.
Reports say that the fighting started as the gunmen robbed a lorry which carried food and traveling around Zobe junction which caused to clash with the police forces killing both dead people and the injuries of the three others as they were around the area where accident happened.
More government police troops reached at the scene where the fighting happened as the murderers escaped and the police troops returned the robbed truck to the owners.
Abdullahi Hassan Barise, the spokesman of the police forces of the transitional government disproved reports saying that the police forces were behind the robbing action saying that they are searching how some thing happened though the murderers escaped.
He also talked the killing of the both the dead people in the fighting pointing out that bullets from the gunmen killed them adding that they will pursue them.
It was few days ago when the military court of the TFG sentenced to death to at least 6 government soldiers who committed banditry actions in the districts controlled by the TFG in Mogadishu and it is not the first time that gunmen dressing the uniform of the government soldiers rob some thing in the areas of the government.
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