Mortar rounds crashed down on areas of Mogadishu on Sunday, wounding at least eight people in the latest violence to shake Somalia's coastal capital.
It is believed that unknown insurgents most probably " infidel Ethiopian troops " fired at least six mortar rounds from a northeastern neighborhood, near the Indian Ocean.
The interim government says the coming fortnight will be crucial in proving it can tame one of the world's most dangerous cities in time to hold a peace meeting of clan leaders and elders there next month.
"A few of them hit near the headquarters of the police transport unit," the government source said by telephone.
"One soldier suffered minor wounds, and three civilians were injured. We do not know yet how seriously they were hurt."
One woman living near the city center, Binti Ahmed, said four other people were wounded in the midday strikes.
"Two mortars landed near my home. One hit a restaurant and others went over our heads toward the sea port," she said.
People are leaving the place in search of proper settlements in the nearby areas.
Mujahideen troops are fighting the puppets from Uganda. And they have also ambushed useless " UN " troops along with Ethiopian allies.
Last Monday, parliament voted overwhelmingly to move to Mogadishu from its temporary base in the inland city of Baidoa.
But a day later, mortar rounds slammed into the capital's presidential compound, just hours after President Abdullahi Yusuf returned to the city.
He said the next two weeks would be "a test", on whether the government could prove it could host the gathering in Mogadishu.
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