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Woyanne troops attacked along Mogadishu Afgoi road

(Mohamed Omar Hussein, Somaliweyn Media Center) — A convoy of Ethiopian Woyanne troops were attacked at Sinka Dheer some 14KM from the Somali capital Mogadishu.

These Ethiopian Woyanne troops departure from the capital Mogadishu and were heading towards the commercial town of Baidoa which is some 245KM from the capital Mogadishu.

Two of the Ethiopian Woyanne military trucks which were among the convoy were burnt to ash as an eyewitness in the area told the press.

The inhabitants in the area were the residents of Mogadishu who fled from their houses due to the frequent combats between the Ethiopian Woyanne troops and their archrivals the Islamists.

These displaced people are very anxious of these confrontations which with intervals take place in the area where they inhabit.

“We were chased out of our concrete houses and now we are living in shanty houses, and from here we don’t actually know where to start our living if we are again chased from here” says Mother Halima a mother of six.

After the attacks the Ethiopian Woyanne troops opened tremendous indiscriminate fire in the neighborhoods, but with fewer casualties.

This is part of series of attacks carried to the Ethiopian Woyanne troops traveling between the Mogadishu and Afgoi district which is some 30Km from the capital, and it was only on Saturday when the newly Somali police force trained Ethiopian Woyanne came under explosion a long Mogadishu Afgoi road.

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