The latest clashes sparked when masked suspected Islamic militants using pistols and hand grenades attacked the police checkpoints surrounding the market where the government soldiers responded to the attackers.

Two shoe-brushers were among the wounded people who were taken to the Media hospital. Others were passersby who were hit by stray bullets.

The fighting had an impact on the business activities and the traffic of the public buses as everybody in the area managed to escape the cross fire.

No casualty was reported on the rival sides.

Meanwhile, life and movement of the people has resumed on Sunday on Mogadishu’s key Sodonka Street in Somalia after 30 days of occupation by the Ethiopian forces as people could be seen fearlessly returning back to their homes.

Some of the residents began picking up their necessary belongings from their homes and went back to where they had already fled fearing that the Ethiopians might return to the village.

The areas deserted by the Ethiopians are where they had heavy clashes with the supporters of the ousted Islamic Courts Union which ruled much of the southern and central Somalia for six months before they were defeated by the Ethiopian forces helping the transitional federal government late December 2006.

The withdraw by the Ethiopians on Sodanka street came with the respect of a request from the business people and elders, according to the Somali’s police commander Abdi Hassan Qeybdid who spoke to the local reporters on Saturday.

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