Missionary International Service News Agency (MISNA)
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Medina, in the southern sector of the city, is among the main hospitals of Somalia. Clashes continued over the weekend and this morning with an unspecified number of dead in different areas of the nation, from Mogadishu in Doblai, in the south, with an attack on a mosque, to the agricultural town of Afgoye, 30km south of the capital, where government troops clashed with the local police.
The latest episode of violence occurred this morning in Mogadishu, when a bomb targeted Ethiopian troops patrolling the area of Sinka Dheera, in the southern outskirts of the city, causing the soldiers to open random fire in response. According to eyewitnesses, some Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the blast, though there are no official confirmations on the eventual death toll.
Mortar shells last night hit a former prison building and current Ethiopian troops base in the eastern suburb of the city. Local residents referred that the reaction of the soldiers was immediate, firing mortars and grenades onto inhabited areas, particularly the old milk factory and the main Bakara market.
Source: MISNA, Aug 11, 2008