Mogadishu: On Wednesdayevening AU troops helped put out a fire that gutted Mogadishu’s HamarWeynemarket. The fire was successfully curbed, preventing it from spreading tosurrounding residential and business areas.
Responding to calls for assistance from Somali authorities and traders, AMISOMtroops sent two fire fighting trucks and personel to help quell the 6-hourblaze that had started at 19:30 near the fruit section of the market.
To fortify the TFG police and military efforts, twelve infantry fightingvehicles and fifty soldiers were deployed to secured the premises to stoplooters taking advantage of the situation.
Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Fred Mugisha, expressed his sympathies to traderswho lost their goods during the unfortunate incident.
“Though we are grateful that no lives were lost to the fire, AMISOM is saddenedby this setback for the traders in Mogadishu,” he said.
Markets and businesses have reopened in Mogadishu following the expulsion ofthe al Shabaab terror group from the capital last year by the TFG military withthe support of AMISOM.
