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Mogadishu,(insidesomalia.org)-Armed groups have shot dead two government soldiers in Karan district of the capital on Thursday commissioner said.
The killing of the soldiers occurred at a checkpoint site in that district as the commissioner of that neighborhood Abdullahi Mohamed Roble told reporters
He added that the killers of the two soldiers were men dressed in the military force's camouflage and he declared that the dressed killers were the government's rebel fighters.
He as well told that the killers have soonly escaped from the scene later than the killing of the soldiers also he denied the dead soldier's rifles were taken away by the attackers saying that they were rummaging around those groups.
Else where the fighters aligned with the government has briefly seized an animal market in the capital after they attacked the market that is to say Dayah livestock market on the outskirt of Heliwa district north of Mogadishu witnesses said.
The battle started after Islamist rebels attacked the bazaar as the soldiers were collecting the tax income from the livestock purchasers on Thursday morning.
Two civilians were killed in the fighting after stray bullets struck them in the vicinity of the warred area furthermore the government troops have pulled out from the market after further minutes of skirmishing.
"I was buying a goat from the market while I was bargaining the buying price with the vendor sudden bangs and bullet barrages have started we entirely put out chests on ground as one" buyer Fatima Adan told local radio biased in Mogadishu.
She says that the soldiers have returned to the market after the armed groups have take out from the market after a few minutes of presence in the market.
Somalia's interim government and its Ethiopian military backers are battling an insurgency in Mogadishu led remnants of the ousted Islamic courts group they kicked out of the city a year ago.
Activists say fighting in Mogadishu killed 6,500 people last year and wounded 8,500. Ill-equipped African Union peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi have failed to reduce the bloodshed.
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