Soldier killed, residents hurt as 3 trucks of food for famine victims are looted in Mogadishu, Somalia

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Soldier killed, residents hurt as 3 trucks of food for famine victims are looted in Mogadishu, Somalia - Reuters

MOGADISHU, Aug 5 (Reuters) - One soldier was killed and a dozen residents wounded when three trucks loaded with food intended for famine victims were looted in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said.

Government troops fired shots and fought amongst themselves as they loaded wheelbarrows and minibuses with emergency food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Badbaado camp on the outskirts of the city, the witnesses said, forcing hundreds of displaced Somalis to flee the camp.

Some Mogadishu residents also escaped with food on their shoulders.

"(Government forces) looted all the trucks. I'm lucky that my family is safe. I do not know where I'm heading to. I'm running for my life," Aliyow Hussein, a 40-year-old father of three, told Reuters on a street outside the camp.

"I took only my plastic sheet and this mat. I could see one dead soldier and about a dozen wounded displaced people," he said, using the sheet to shelter his family from the rain.