(SomaliNet) Somali’s interim government said on Tuesday that its security forces killed three of the local insurgents who threw grenade bombs at the police post in Shangaani district, east of the capital Mogadishu overnight. The head of the police information department, General Abdiwahid Mohamed Hussein told the local media this morning that the policemen near the former Juba hotel surrounded the attackers and killed them on the spot. “The security forces shot dead three elements and their bodies are still laying on the ground and it is open for all journalists to come to see the fact. They were among the peace killers,” said Mohamed.
The soldiers he said also captured two other militants. “Before being shot dead the Islamists have exchanged gunfire with the policemen,” added Mohamed.
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On Sunday, the government said it killed one local insurgent after he hurled grenade bomb at the policemen in Hamar-weyne district. His body, which was laying on ground till yesterday, was buried today. Mogadishu’s mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb ‘Mohamed Dhere’ rewarded the soldier that killed what he called ‘the terrorist’ with ten million So. Shillings.
Elsewhere, last night, the local Islamist militants launched clashed with the government troops in different locations of the capital as the rival sides exchanged heavy artillery and gunfire. The casualty was reported from the latest confrontations. Daily and nightly skirmishes continue in the northern settlements of the capital which led hundreds of people mostly young men to flee for their safety.
Reliable sources confirmed Somalinet that the government soldiers continue arbitrary arrest in what the government called ‘the hotbed areas’ in Yaqshid and Huriwa districts.