DEADLY BOMBING IN SOMALI MARKET !

At least 17 people have been killed in a mortar attack on the main market in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Ethiopian troops backing the interim Somali government are reported to be behind the shelling of Bakara market in which more than 40 people were injured.
Eyewitnesses said the shells landed among shoppers, cutting people down.
Meanwhile, a senior national security ministry official has said that 80% of the country is now outside government control and is not safe.
Sheikh Qasim Ibrahim Nur also warned that Islamist insurgents had regrouped and were poised to launch a major strike.
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Karen Allen says it is a rare admission of the fragility of the transitional government, which is backed by troops from neighbouring Ethiopia.

Living in the danger zone

Ethiopia helped it end the Union of Islamic Courts' (UIC) six-month rule over large parts of southern Somalia, last December.
Our correspondent says the latest flare-up of fighting is widely believed to be an escalation in the conflict.
"It was a very horrific scene to see mortars landing on an area crammed with innocent civilians," Saleban Haji Muse, whose brother died in the market attack, told the BBC.
The attack took place a few hours after heavily armed insurgents engaged in a fire fight with the Ethiopian troops in a northern district of the city.
Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies face increasing criticism from the international community.
They have been accused of indiscriminate attacks on civilians, in an effort to try and stop the spread of an Islamist insurgency, our reporter says.

BBC NEWS REPORT.