Somalia: Heavy Shelling Kills Three, Injures 24 Others in Mogadishu

Mogadishu — At least 3 civilian have been killed and 24 others have been injured after several heavy shelling targeted to many different districts and neighborhoods in Mogadishu in the capital, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

Most of the mortar shells landed at Ged ja'el neighborhood in Wardhigley district in Mogadishu and Shabelle's main centre in Bakara market, killing a civilian, wounding 13 others a ccording to Shabelle's Muno Mohamud Nor.

Residents said that were more other districts which affected the shelling like Raderka and Gubta neighborhoods in Mogadishu where more people were also wounded in today's shelling.

Sources said that the emergency traffic which took part the deployment of the wounded people adding that more than 20 people were rushed to the hospitals in Mogadishu.

Shabelle's journalists expressed surprise when heavy shell targeted to the main centre of Shabelle Media Network in Mogadishu and it unclear so far the main reason that the station of Shabelle and all the other areas in the capital were bombed today.


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