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Somalia: Three killed in fighting between government soldiers
MOGADISHU (Mareeg)—At least three people including a civilian woman were killed in a gun battle between government soldiers in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Saturday.
The fighting started after soldiers tried to destroy forcibly makeshift houses in Afisyone neighborhood in Mogadishu near the airport which the mayor ordered days ago but other soldiers confronted them.
Abdirisaq Mohamed Nur, Mogadishu mayor ordered the makeshift houses near the airport to be destroyed saying that Islamist militants could infiltrate among the IDPS and could target the airport.
Government soldiers who their families live in the area rejected the other soldiers to destroy the houses and the fighting erupted between them killing five people and wounding seven others including civilians.
Colonel Hassan Mohamed Hassan, an officer of the Somali government who live in the area criticized the soldiers who attacked their houses and added that they have complied the order of the mayor and were in middle of moving when these soldiers attacked them.
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