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Somali freedom fighters attacked Woyanne army base (BBC)

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

(BBC) — A mother and two children are among 25 people and 13 civilians, killed in fierce fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say.

They were killed when a mortar shell landed on their house, neighbours said. The fighting began when 100 insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked three government and Ethiopian Woyanne bases south of the city.

An insurgent spokesman told the BBC they had killed 10 Ethiopian Woyanne troops, while two of their men had died.

Ethiopian Woyanne has not commented on these claims.

Eyewitnesses say the civilians were killed when Ethiopian Woyanne troops fired shells in response to the attack by Islamist fighters.

“The insurgents came with minibuses and other vehicles and immediately started firing at an Ethiopian Woyanne base at the former defence ministry building and nearby government military base,” said local resident Abdi Wahab Kalil.

The insurgents have also attacked Mogadishu’s main football stadium, which is now the main Ethiopian Woyanne military base in the city.

“It was a horrific scene, and we collected the flesh of their bodies which was stuck to the walls,” said Sahara Aden Samow, who lives in the Hamarjadiid district, where several Ethiopian Woyanne mortars landed.

Ceasefire

Staff at Mogadishu’s Medina hospital said they took in 18 wounded people, including six children.

“Most of the wounded were brought here early this morning, because they could not have an access to the hospitals, they are now under treatment,” said one doctor, Dahi Dheere.

On Wednesday, two policemen were killed in an attack which occurred a few minutes after a convoy carrying President Abdullahi Yusuf had driven past.

9 thoughts on “Somali freedom fighters attacked Woyanne army base (BBC)”

  1. Elias Kifle

    Could you please be ethical and professional in what you are doing. Why do you keep deleting part of the news story… Please do not call the woyanne troops…. these are Ethiopians whether they are from north, south, east, west and central Ethiopia. You have a right to fight against the Meles regime, I am with you but from a different ethiopian camp. However, you need to respect them for the fact that they are human-being and Ethiopians. Unless you hate Ethiopia and its people. I am one of those who visited your website since election 2005 but have several doubt about your professionalism and integrity.

    Hope to see changes and improvement

    Regards
    Dagne

  2. Elias,

    As usual you lie through teeth. There is nothing on BBC that carries news on Somalia on June 20. I guess your few readers won’t know the difference.

  5. maybe you both enjoy to see innocents blood.. it is in everywhere you blind eye monkey in websides maybe you read only news that you wanna heart coz you cant hide the true. me i see those so called woyane forces as a cowards killing
    innocents ppl everyday while they loosing more cowards in the battle i guess you both are enjoying this so you should be proud maybe they didnt get the mesagge if you are not welcome then your not.. what i didnt get is hungry nation cant occupyd another hungry nation coz i thing melez and gabre think the number while somali small nation cant do none while they are killing eacthor meles douple faces will be suprised inshallaah those ppl loosing their lifes everyday i thing sameone will pay the heavy price

  7. “Family killed in Somali clashes”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7465021.stm

    You see desrperate double standard and double moralism, ex-colonialists try to expose even some things that did not exist in Zimbabwe, but take all the troubles to hide the casualties of the minority dictator in Ethiopia. SHAME!

    I mean that this piece of BBC news was hiding in a very funny corner on their site.Hmm…!

    The truth nothing but only the truth!
    Who did lie and who did not?

  8. #3.Reader,

    Do you mean to thank Tazabi for his lack of observation and mistakenly said “thank you Tazabi for your observation”?

    Next time you may need to think before you thank.

  9. Those who are trying to deprive Elias’s right to free speech are no better than Melese himself. You cant suppress Elias’s right to free press. But if you are tired of him of competition with the kind animal donkey, you can use your right of boycotting his website.

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