Mogadishu — Calm has returned to the mortar shelling zones in the Somali capital Mogadishu, just as the wounded civilians suffering their injuries in the hospitals, and witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

Two civilians were killed and several others were wounded after heavy shelling between the transitional Federal government troops baking by AMISOM and the Islamist fighters started in parts of the Hodan district in Mogadishu on Saturday night.

Residents said that the four injured civilians were same family adding that they were rushed to hospital pointing out that they were wounded as mortar shell landed in to their village at Barmudo neighborhood in Mogadishu.

More residents in Hodan and Hawl-wadag districts expressed concern about the overnight shelling which affected all neighborhoods in both districts in the capital, but the situation seems calm on Sunday morning.