Thursday, September 27, 2007
One man was gunned down in the southern Wardhigley neighbourhood.
"Two armed men shot him in the head right in front of my house. I was terrified and the man's blood was all over my door," resident Fatuma Ali Soyal said.
The night's other fatal incident took place in the city's now infamous Bakara market area, a maze of narrow alleys festering with crime where the Islamist-led insurgency frequently ambushes Somali police patrols.
| 'Two armed men shot him in the head right in front of my house' |
"The man was shot by a young boy, he shot him twice in the back of the head," said Abdulkadir Nur, who witnessed the scene.
The motives for both killings were not immediately clear.
Ethiopian troops came to the rescue of Somalia's embattled transitional government last year and ousted an Islamist militia that briefly controlled large parts of the country.
Since then, an Islamist-led insurgency has waged daily guerrilla-style attacks in Mogadishu against the government as well as the Ethiopian and the African Union troops protecting it.
The lack of stability and central authority has also allowed clan-based feuds to erupt and crime to grip the seaside capital.
Source: AFP, Sept 27, 2007