Mogadishu mayor, Mohammed Dheere, told journalists Saturday that he survived from a bomb explosion in the Somali capital. The mayor, who held a press conference, said his convoy was passing around CC road in north of the capital, when a man on the top of a tree closer to the road threw a hand grenade which exploded near Dheere's convoy.

"The suspect was intending to kill me, but my guards soon took him down and seized another suspect," Dheere told journalists in a news conference he held in his compound that lies in Hamar Weyne at the center of the capital.

Initial reports indicated that the explosion was sparked by an explosive device wrapped up in black plastic bag and placed at the corner of CC road where cleaning operation was being maintained by some people.

He said remnants of the routed Islamic Courts were behind Sunday's bomb explosion. "The Islamists seem to be still active in Mogadishu, but we will get rid of them," he said.

He stressed that the insurgency was organized in Mogadishu's largest marketplace, Bakara.

"The government will take decisive measures against the insurgents being funded in Bakara and those in Bakara should put up with the measures," he said.

Somalia premier, Ali Mohammed Gedi, survived an attempt of a bomb attack last Thursday. Government spokesman, Goobdoon, said the attack was carried out by two men. "It was a hand grenade and it did not explode," he said, adding that one suspect was caught as another escaped.

Dheere said the government decided to conquest the house which insurgents used as a base to attack the Somali bureaucrats and forces.

"The home where this insurgent carried out the attack against me is the first one we are taking over today," he said.

Residents in Mogadishu have been ordered to mow the clumps of bushes around their home or that they would be fined with 1 million Somali shillings worth $62 (US dollars).

The mayor stated the bushes could a hideout for the Islamic insurgents who have fulfilled several bomb assaults on the Somali and foreign soldiers in Mogadishu since the Ethiopian backed government seized control of the Islamic fighters' strongholds in north of the volatile capital early this month.