Mortar shells fired into homes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has killed three people and wounded five, police and ambulance services said on Friday, a day after the government changed heads of security agencies.
Mortar attack kills 3, wounds 5 in Somali capital
The mortars landed on Wadajir district. The homes are in the vicinity of Mogadishu airport.
“We have carried three dead women and five others injured, including a woman and children. Mortars landed on their home today,” Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of Amin ambulance services, told Reuters on Friday.
This attack follows that of Thursday when a roadside bomb killed 10 people in a minibus in Golweyn village hours after Somalia’s president replaced security chiefs and called on al Shabaab militants to surrender within 60 days.