Somalia: Calm Returns to Elasha Village After Large Riot

Somalia — Calm has returned to Elasha Biyaha village out of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, just after large riot against the Islamic organization of Hizbul Islam.

The large demonstration started on Tuesday afternoon as the Islamist forces of Hizbul Islam put down the national Somali flag from on e of the schools in the village and changed to a black flag which caused to disagree with the administration of the schools and resulted in all students and residents to started large demonstration against them injuring several people during riot.

All the business centers in the village were reopened on Wednesday and the movement of traffic and people restarted as the calm retuned.

The reason was unclear and there was no comment from the Islamic administration.

We had tried to contact with the Islamic administration of Hizbul Islam, but was too difficult to get them through the telephone.

It was the first such demonstration against the Islamic administration of Hizbyul Islam happen in the village which is under their control and it came as the fighters removed the national blue flag with five stars of Somalis which is the national flag for the Somali nation.

On the other hand calm has also returned to areas which yesterday's shelling affected in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

8 people had lost their lives more than 20 others wounded as the heavy shelling started in more parts of the capital on Tuesday afternoon according to the emergency traffic officials.

Tagged: East Africa, Somalia

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