location: Baidoa
notes: Local police officers, on security patrol, clashed with security guards (official status not known) of a Minister of the South West State in a Toyota Corolla near Ikow garage on the road to Mogadishu. There was an exchange gunfire. Three occupants of the vehicle and a police officer were killed. There is no further explanation about the nature of the incident and the overall factor that trigger the clash at the time of reporting.
target_text: location: Baidoa, fatalities: 4