Aweys
Osman
Yusuf
Mogadishu
Somalia's
insurgents
launched
massive
attacks
on
government
positions,
including
a police
station,
last
night
while
commemoration
for the
country's
Independence
Day was
maintaining
at the
presidential
palace,
Villa
Somalia
overnight.
The
gunmen
used
rocket
propelled
grenades
and
automatic
weapons
in their
latest
incursion
on
Hawlwadag
police
station
near
Mogadishu's
Bakara
market
where a
civilian
was
gunned
down on
Saturday
afternoon.
Residents
in the
neighborhood
said
they
could
hear
explosions
and
exchanges
of
gunfire
which
lasted
in 20
minutes.
Gunmen
also
attacked
a large
number
of
police
officers
based in
K.P.P.
zone in
south of
the
capital,
Mogadishu,
overnight.
Nonetheless,
no
casualties
have
been
reported
on
Sunday.
Meanwhile
residents
around
former
Pasta
Plant in
north
Mogadishu
reported
Sunday
that the
body of
a man
who was
shot in
the area
still
lies
there.
Saem
Ahmed, a
resident,
told
Shabelle
that he
could
hear the
sounds
of
several
gunshots
last
night.
"Residents
saw the
dead men
who
shows
torture
and
gunshots
in the
neighborhood.
No one
identified
him yet,
and we
do not
know who
killed
him
either,"
he said.
Contingents
of
Ethiopian
forces
are
based in
Somalia's
former
Pasta
plant.
The
Somali
transitional
government
celebrated
the
country's
Independence
Day last
night
amid
night-time
curfew
on the
capital.