.- At least five people died in two separate attacks on mosques in the town of Galkayo, the capital of Mudug region in central Somalia, local radio reported today Shabelle News website. According to this source, gunmen with AK-47 killed one person and wounded another in an act perpetrated this morning in the temple of Subah, in which various religious kidnapped after firing several bursts of shrapnel.
This attack was preceded by another with similar characteristics held yesterday afternoon in Salahuddin Mosque in Galkayo, and in which at least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Earlier, Sheikh Ismail Hashi Hussein, director general of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the self-declared autonomous state of Puntland, a region with which limits the town of Galkayo, "died in a bomb attack.
Somalia has been in constant chaos since it was ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, backed by the international community, only controls some enclaves of the country's capital and the rest of the territory is held by Islamic militias, tribal warlords and even groups of bandits.
The radical Islamic group Al Shabab aims to overthrow the Transitional Government to create a radical Muslim state court "Wahhabi" in East Africa. 
This attack was preceded by another with similar characteristics held yesterday afternoon in Salahuddin Mosque in Galkayo, and in which at least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Earlier, Sheikh Ismail Hashi Hussein, director general of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the self-declared autonomous state of Puntland, a region with which limits the town of Galkayo, "died in a bomb attack.
Somalia has been in constant chaos since it was ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, backed by the international community, only controls some enclaves of the country's capital and the rest of the territory is held by Islamic militias, tribal warlords and even groups of bandits.
The radical Islamic group Al Shabab aims to overthrow the Transitional Government to create a radical Muslim state court "Wahhabi" in East Africa.
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