Precarious Calm Returns to Mogadishu After Battle

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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 3 June 2011 Mandera — One soldier is in critical condition after an explosion hit a Kenya army lorry in Mandera town last night in an attack believed to have been carried out by al-shabaab militiamen.Ten other soldiers were injured. Military and police suspect the explosion was caused by a landmine that was strategically put there to hit the personnel

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

3 June 2011

Mogadishu — Wobbly calm reportedly returned to parts of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after one day of heavy fighting Somali government supported by AU forces and Al shabaab.

At least 23 people were killed and more than 37 others injured. Witnesses said that most of the battles rocked some neighborhoods in Mogadishu’s Hodan, Bondhere and Wardhigley districts.

Most of the people after several mortar fires hit a bus stop in northeaster Mogadishu.

Gen. Abdikarim Yusuf, the commander of Somali army said that thay managed to dislodge Al shabaab fighters several key bases in Hodan district.

No comments about the fighting and government claims were immediately available from Al shabaab movement so far.

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