Ethiopian soldier shot dead in Mogadishu

[rudy-Diiriye]

An unknown militant killed an Ethiopian soldier in ambush attack near the SOS mother and child hospital in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, local residents confirmed to Somalinet. Such actions are attributed to members the ousted Islamic Courts Unions.

 

Sources say that a man armed with a pistol approached a group of Ethiopian soldiers standing alongside the road and killed one of them and then threw a hand grenade bomb to escape.

 

“I saw an Ethiopian soldier lay on the ground,” said Bashir Farah a kiosk owner. The attacker escaped unharmed after he hurled a bomb at the Ethiopians.

 

Shortly after the ambush attack, the Ethiopian troops fired in all directions wounding one of the passersby.

 

The Ethiopian soldiers have been target for bombings, suicide and ambush attacks since they drove the Islamic Courts out of the Somalia capital late December last year.

[Fabregas]

Sources say that a man armed with a pistol approached a group of Ethiopian soldiers standing alongside the road and killed one of them and then threw a hand grenade bomb to escape.

 

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