MOGADISHU, Somalia Oct 15 (Garowe Online) - At least three civilians were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu in an exchange of artillery shelling between insurgents and African Union peacekeepers (AMISOM), Radio Garowe reports.

Witnesses at Mogadishu's Bakara Market said the shells killed and wounded civilians in and around the market.

“I saw two dead bodies who were men and five wounded persons,” said a Bakara trader, adding that the shells hit outside a shopping center.

Sources with Mogadishu’s Life-Line Africa ambulance service said 8 wounded civilians were wounded and transported to Daynile Hospital.

AMISOM spokesman Capt. Barigye Bahoku told reporters that the peacekeepers did not bomb Bakara Market, saying that such reports are “fabricated.”

Some businesses inside Bakara Market closed their doors and shoppers ran for their lives as the shells landed inside and outside the market, witnesses and local sources said.

Source: Garowe Online