Mogadishu, (InsideSomalia.org) One man was killed and at least four civilians are reported to have injured on Tuesday at the Bakara market in a search operation by Somali armed forces, say witnesses.

Armored with heavy vehicles Somali forces have entered the main Bakara market and stopped entirely the movement of the market after fierce fighting took place yesterday evening in the Bakara market in which at least six people were killed and many others wounded.

"Somali forces patrolled the entire roads and allies in the market. They captured many people though some of them have been released later" said Abdulkadir Mohamed, a local journalist.

Some of those captured were interrogated briefly about the previous confrontation between government forces and the insurgents who have confiscating a technical vehicle mounted with a heavy gun.

' Also they were asking about the whereabouts of insurgent who fought against them on Monday" Mohamed Abdullahi , a young man who was apprehended by the government soldiers and released later in Bakara market, the main market in Somalia.

During the operation no fresh clashes were reported and government forces treated civilians with quiet manners, said witness.

Today At midday Somali forces have started to withdraw from the market though they remain as normal in their former base at Holladay and Aden Added interjections.

People who were trapped in their commercial places and work sites have started to get outside in their positions in order to assess the situation is after the troops withdrawn from the market.

The latest clashes in the Bakara market comes after Somali Prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein said soon before he arrived in Mogadishu that he is ready to talk with the insurgents fighting Somali government and Ethiopian troops inside the capital Mogadishu.

Both President Abdullaahi Yusuf and his Prime Minister Nur Adde are in Mogadishu discussing ways to overcome the crisis and violence in the Somali capital.

United Nations and local Human Rights groups said that 6,000 people were killed and more than a million others were displaced since on December 2006 were fighting erupted in the Somali capital.

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