BAIDOA, Somalia Oct 4 (Garowe Online) - The home of Somalia's parliament Speaker was targeted with mortars overnight Friday, Radio Garowe reported.

Sheikh Aden "Madobe" Mohamed, the Speaker, was at home during the attack but none of the mortars hit his home directly, according to neighbors. The Speaker was not harmed during the attack.

Sheikh Aden Madobe, Somali Parliament Speaker

The mortars hit two different civilian homes in Baidoa, a southwestern town located 250km from Mogadishu. Somalia's transitional federal parliament is based in Baidoa, which has a heavy presence of Somali and Ethiopian government forces.

A Baidoa Hospital official, Dr. Timir, told Radio Garowe that seven civilians were being treated for wounds.

In a separate incident, Baidoa intelligence chief Col. Ibrahim "Kuwait" Sheikh Hassan was shot and killed Saturday morning inside a local market and the killers escaped.

The Islamist guerrilla group, al Shabaab, claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Somalia's interim government has faced armed resistance from rebel groups since December 2006, when the Ethiopian army helped install the weak government in Mogadishu for the first time since coming to power in 2004.

Source: Garowe Online