Unknown assailants fired mortar bombs in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, February 7, wounding at least eight people, a police official said, and a witness said two children had been killed. "Three mortars hit a building close to the seaport, one boy was wounded. Another mortar hit a house in al Baraka neighbourhood, wounding seven," Ali Said, head of the Mogadishu police, told Reuters.