MOGADISHU, May 26, 2010 ( Sh. M. network) –

Heavy fighting between the transitional government of Somalia backing by AMISOM troops and the Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen has broken out in the north Somalia capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.

Reports say that the fighting broke out as the transitional government troops and AMISOM attacked military bases of Harakta Al-shabab Mujahideen who took over several areas in Shibis district recently.

Residents told Shabelle radio that both sides had exchanged heavy gunfire with shelling that could be heard all directions in the district adding that the Islamist forces of Harakat Al-shahab Mujahideen had returned back to their positions lastly.

The real casualties of the fighting are unclear except one of the journalists of Radio Banadir in Mogadishu Hassan Lucky who was injuried as the fighting continued where he was not so far.

Officials of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen who contacted with Shabelle radio confirmed that their forces were attacked as they were at the military positions that they recently took over from the government soldiers in north Mogadishu adding that they had defended from both AMISOM and the government troops.

There is no comment from the officials of transitional government about the fighting and the attacks they started at the Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in Shibis district in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu so far.

Bodies of two young men found in Somali capital

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) –

The bodies of two young men have been found around the American embassy in Mogadishu early on Wednesday morning, witnesses told Shabelle radio.

“The two bodies laid at Siliga Americanka neighborhood where there are more displaced people. They were young men. They could not be identified yet. They are still laying there. We do not know why they were killed and who killed them,” said one of the witnesses

More people in areas had gathered at the areas where the two dead bodies laid to see them and watched to be identified, but there they not recognized yet.

Reports said that bullet s could be seen on the bodies of the young men and thought to be shot and killed overnight. It is unclear who killed them and also why they were killed so far.

More displaced people had built cottages in the American embassy in the Somalia capital mainly Wadajir district south of Mogadishu and it is not the first time that dead bodies of young people seen in the capital.

Explosion kills a woman in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) –

Big explosion has killed a woman in parts of Wadajir district in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.

Witnesses said that the blast occurred at Hassan Hila’a neighborhood in Wadajir district on Wednesday morning adding that it had killed an old woman walking around where the explosion happened.

“It was a mortar shell landed at the neighborhood. It killed a woman walking at the area. She was looking for a medicine (refeter), but she died. No I did not see any other people wounded or killed, it was morning,” one witnesses said.

Some of the government troops had reached at the scene immediately as the blast happened and it is unclear what the real blast was. Most of the people expressed surprise about the blast and it is not the first time that blasts kill civilians in Mogadishu.

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