Garowe Online (Garowe)
7 April 2011
Unknown gunmen overnight killed two Somali government soldiers in Darkanley district in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.
Farah, a witness told Garowe Online “Militiamen shot two government soldiers near Market Boocle in Darkanley district on Wednesday evening,”
He adds the killers escaped capture despite the government’s recently intensified security operations.
Darkanley is one of the districts fully controlled by Somali government forces and African Union troops in Mogadishu.
Since 2007 deadly clashes in the Somalia between Somali government forces alongside African Union Troops and Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda linked militia left dead more than 21,000 civilians and forced 1.5 million to flee from their houses
Somalia was without functioning government since 1991, when clan militias overthrew Siad Barre’s administration.
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