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 Students injured in clash with police

Amiin Mohamed – Somaliland

 

Berbera, June 21, 2007 (African Star) – Two students were injured when Berbera teenagers protested against a student removal from  Somaliland’s leaving school certificate examination. The incident occurred on June 21, 2007 at Bursade High school in Berbera.

 The student, Mohamed Ali, was ordered out of the class, by one of the teachers who were invigilating  the examination.

But few minutes later, a large  number of Berbera teenagers came to the school and stoned the police guarding outside the school. Police responded by firing shots in the air o disperse the crowds.

However, two people were injured in the head.

According to an eyewitnesses, Ahmed Hassan was one of the injured persons, went into casualty after police hit a gun on his head.

One of them was  taken to Berbera General Hospital.

The minister of Education Hassan Mohamoud Warsame, (pictured below) who was in Berbera intevened and managed to calm the situation.

It is not the first time that such an incident has taken place in Somaliland. In 2005  at least four people were shoot dead by the police, when they tried to enter Sh. Ali Jawhar Secondary School in Borame the capital of the western region of Somaliland, Awdal, 140km west of Hargeysa to help the students for the examination.