Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) - At least three people including a government official and two others were killed and six others wounded after suspected insurgents hurled two hand grenades at the resident of Bay region police chief overnight in Baidoa, the official site of the Somali Parliament.

The attack seem to be targeted to General Ibrahim Hashi Gabow, the police commander of Bay region survived the attack since he was not inside the residence when the attack took place.

Among the dead were the commander’s daughter and a son and one of his bodyguards. Also among the wounded were three others of his children and two bodyguards, said the official who declined to be mentioned.

The attackers clashed with the bodyguards who were in inside the commander’s home but later managed to flee.

The commander whom we tried to speak with did not haste to comment on the attack but reports from Baidoa general hospital confirmed that at least three of General Gabow’s children were hospitalized with injuries.

Col. Gabow's home is located in the town of Baidoa, 250km northwest of the national capital Mogadishu.

Baidoa town was tense since the General’s residence was attacked and Somali police and the military started sealing off some of the streets coming in and out of the scene of the attack.

No one was arrested because of the attack, said the police.

On Friday, a regional judge was shot and killed in Baidoa. Col. Gabow said then that the killers "came from Mogadishu" where a violent insurgency rages against the government and its foreign backers.

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