Three people were killed and a similar number injured when mortar shells hit a residential area in the coastal Barawe town in southern Somalia Wednesday, military officials said.
The Somali National Army (SNA) local officials told Radio Mogadishu that the soldiers launched a security operation in the area in search of the terrorists who committed the heinous act.
“Three civilians were killed and three others wounded after mortars fired by the terrorists hit a residential area in Barawe town,” the radio reported.
Witnesses said the terrorists fired the mortar shells when the election of the seven Lower House seats from the South-West state was underway. The locals said some mortar shells landed near the South-West presidential palace.
“We heard gunfire in some parts of the town, especially in an area near the presidential palace where the election was taking place,” said a witness who declined to be named.
No group has claimed responsibility for the latest attack in the southern part of Somalia but al-Shabab military groups often stage such attacks in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and elsewhere across Somalia. Enditem
