MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Nearly 10 mortar rounds struck several neighborhoods in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, with some landing on residential areas amid heavy presence of security forces in the country’s largest and most populous city.
One of the mortar rounds hit a house in Hamarwayne district inside the city’s green-zone, but its occupants survived and no one was harmed as a result, according to local media.
Other rounds struck Yaqshid and Heliwa districts in the north of the Somali capital. Al-Qaeda-aligned militant group Al-Shabaab has recently increased attacks in and the outskirts of Mogadishu as the government continues training and deployment of fresh troops in the city to tighten security and its grip on the capital.
Somali police said, in a statement, that blasts heard in Mogadishu overnight were caused “dummy explosives” which the militants intended to cause fear among the residents and undermine security.
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