By SPA,
Mogadishu : Six civilians died and four were wounded when Ethiopian troops opened fired on a minibus just south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said Thursday.
A witness told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Ethiopians “opened fire indiscriminately” shortly after a gun battle between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian soldiers protecting a convoy.
Yusuf Haji, a resident in the town of Walaweyn, told dpa that the minibus was attacked late on Wednesday evening as it passed through an area near the scene of an earlier gunfight.
Militants have been waging a guerrilla war since Ethiopian troops helped the government oust the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in late 2006.