/ 6 September 2001

TEN WOUNDED IN SOMALI CINEMA SHOOTING

TEN people were wounded when gunmen in a vehicle fired on a cinema in the southern Somali town of Jowhar. Eight of those wounded during the attack late on Monday were moviegoers and two were assailants shot when cinema guards returned fire. The motive for the attack was said to be revenge as the gunmen had accused the cinema owners of being responsible for the murder of a member of the assailants’ clan. Three of the wounded were in a critical condition, said a nurse in a local hospital. Jowhar, 90 kilometres north of Mogadishu, is run by local warlord Mohamed Omar Habeb. – AFP