Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
18 July 2011
Mogadishu — A Somali government soldier on Monday shot and killed a civilian driver in the lawless Mogadishu, witnesses said.
Eyewitnesses told Shabelle Radio that the soldier fired intentionally at the bus driver while he was traveling at Mogadishu’s KM4 junction.
The killing came after the driver refused to give illicit money to the soldier to pass the road.
An eyewitness, who identified himself Abukar, said he witnessed how the incident took place, adding that some of some Somali soldiers at the KM4 junctions accustomed to order bus drivers to pay illegal fee to pass the street.
The shooting caused to briefly shutdown the movement of cars and business activities at the crime scene.
However, no comments about the shooting the civilian bus driver, were immediately available from the government.
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