(SomaliNet) MOGADISHU - Civilians dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldiers in the streets of SomaliaÂ’s capital today after fighting with insurgents killed a second soldier and civilian, witnesses said, AFP reports.
In the grisly incident, more than 100 civilians stepped and spat on the scarred body as they dragged it for several kilometres on a pot-holed asphalt road from MogadishuÂ’s Suqaholaha district to Barubah, an AFP correspondent reported. "We will fight against the Ethiopia colonisers and we will kill them like this", "Down with Ethiopia, Allah is Great", they chanted in native Somali language.
The slain soldier - with only a camouflage trouser and his body badly scarred - was among two Ethiopians and a civilian killed in heavy fighting that rocked northern MogadishuÂ’s Suqaholaha district earlier in the day, witnesses said. "After the fighting, Ethiopian forces came and collected the body of one of their own killed in front of my door," said resident Ali Nur Yayah, referring to the second soldier. "Five civilians were also wounded in the fighting," he added.
Another resident, Hussein Mohamad, said he "saw the body of a slain man in civilian clothes at the battlefield."
The incident comes nearly a week after insurgents paraded three Ethiopian troops through the streets of Mogadishu in a scene somewhat reminiscent of 1993, when the bodies of US special forces taking part in a doomed operation were famously torn to pieces and paraded in the streets. |