 SomaliNet reports the elders asked the government to leave to avoid bloodshed in their town.The article said it was government troops, and not Ethiopians who had come to the town.An Ethiopian column of 80 vehicles was hit by landmines and then attacked with gunfire by a group of about 50 troops loyal to the ICU on November 19, 2006, near Berdaale, west of Baidoa.