location: Baidoa
notes: An unknown attacker hurled a hand grenade against an armed pro-SNG community policing group in Bintow Mosque area (Berdale neighbourhood) in Baidoa on 31/12. The militiamen opened fire in the direction of the attacker after the explosion. A security operation was conducted in the area after the attack and at least 15 persons, most of them young men, were arrested. No casualties were reported to have resulted from the explosion and the consequent shooting.
target_text: location: Baidoa, fatalities: 0