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Mogadishu, (InsideSomalia.org) one civilian person was wounded on Saturday when mortar shell fired by the insurgents hit a house near the Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu, says witness.
"The mortar attack was targeted at the president palace soon after Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf arrived in the capital and moved in the palace" said government official speaking in anonymity with InsideSomalia.org.
The palace was attacked with at least two rounds of mortar shells but none of them hit inside the palace, said Mohamed Ali, a resident near the presidential palace.
The Somali president went to London for medical treatment last month and made a brief stopover in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he held talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
In another incident, the head of the capital's Daynile district, Haji Omar Haji Ali, was among five people hurt when his vehicle was blown up by a landmine, Mogadishu's deputy mayor Abdifatah Shaweye told journalists.
"A land-mine blew up his car near the district he was in charge of and we arrested two suspects for the incident in which the commissioner and four others were wounded," he said.
Islamist insurgents have been waging a deadly guerrilla war, mainly in the capital Mogadishu, against Somali government forces and their allies from the Ethiopian military and an African Union peacekeeping force.
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