Tuesday, June 2, 2009

government soldiers led by Somali national security minister reaches in central Somalia and fighting still continues in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (TF.SF) – more government soldiers led by the national security minister of the Somali transitional government colonel Omar Hashi Aden have reached in Kala-beyrka intersection in Hiran region in central Somalia, officials told TF.SF on Tuesday.Local officials who declined to be disclosed confirmed MOGADISHU radio that the minister and the troops he is leading left from Feer-Feer town in the regional administration of Somalia in Ethiopia and reached in Kala-beyrka intersection in Jawil village in Hiran region where there had been an Ethiopian troop earlier.The real number of the government troops led by the national security minister of the transitional government of Somalia colonel Omar Hashi Aden is unclear so far and his arrival comes as military amassing against the regions controlled by the Islamist forces against the government is going on in the Gedo and Bakol region bordering Ethiopia. sporadic gunfire between the government soldiers and allied forces of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen and Hisbul Islam is continuing in parts of Yaqshid district in the Somali capital

Mogadishu, on Tuesday.heavy fighting between the government soldiers and the Islamist forces against the government has broken out in Derkenley district in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses .Residents told mogadishu radio that the fighting is a very heavy fighting which both sides are using heavy gunfire as many of the residents started fleeing from their house in the area of the fighting.Sources said that both the government soldiers and the Islamist forces were amassing troops in Derkenley district and the neighborhoods that the fighting is continuing now are like: Showriga, Dabaqeyn, Hosh, Sarmadow and around Kah-Sheikal village in the Somali capital Mogadishu some casualty has been reported so far as the sound heavy weapons could be hear the entire Derkenley district in Mogadishu.The residents expressed concern about the fighting in Derkenley district those are including those who displaced from the other districts in Mogadishu due to fighting.The fighting comes as there has been military maneuver between the government soldiers and the Islamist forces who are manning the control of the police station of Derkenley district in the Mogadishu.On the other hand reports from the Yaqshid district in the north of the capital say that the government soldiers had retaken over the control of Yaqshid district police station once again after fighting between the soldiers and the Islamist organization forces of Hisbul Islam.Residents said that the sound of sporadic gunfire could be heard this morning in and around the area of yesterday’s fighting in Yaqshid district in Mogadishu as the two rival sides are still in their positions of the fighting.The fighting that started yesterday in Yaqshid district caused to flee the few people remained in that district from their houses there. Many people had displaced earlier in that district which more other civilians are still busy for fleeing their houses to get shelter from the safe area in or out of the capital. We shall keep updating you for any further details about the news as soon as possible.

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