Ethiopian incursion into Somalia

Somalia's deputy defense minister Mahmoud Muhammad Heid said on Friday that 300 Ethiopian soldiers on Thursday evening broke into Bakoul district to the Southern west of Somalia.

News reports quoted Heid, who is a member in the provisional Somali government of the Arta conference in Djibouti as saying that almost 300 Ethiopian soldiers crossed Teyaglo border city, heading to the neighboring Bai district.

He added that security men in the provisional national government monitored the process of the Ethiopian soldiers and their vehicles and artilleries crossing the borders.