Mogadishu (Sunatimes)Several mortars shells struck parts of Mogadishu last night, a day after six people were reportedly killed by rebel fired mortars in the city. It’s not yet known whether the attacks caused any casualties or property loss.

Reports say residents of several neighbourhoods in the city were frightened by the deafening sound of the mortars slamming into their residential areas.

The director of the National Security Agency Ahmed Maalim Fiqi told reporters in Mogadishu that investigations are underway to determine whether there were any human and property loss in the affected neighbourhoods.

Early on Monday night, heavily armed security officials were seen patrolling almost all neighbourhoods in Mogadishu in efforts to bolster security in the city.

The attacks comes a day after six people including four family members were killed after Al-Shabaab fired mortars slammed into a camp for displaced people in Mogadishu’s Wardigley district.

The family members including two children and their two parents were hit by a mortar shell fired by Al-Shabaab militant group. Only a child survived with shrapnel wounds survived from the family.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility of the Sunday night mortar attacks, saying that it was targeting heavily fortified Somalia’s presidential palace and boasted of killing African Union and government soldiers.

But AU force spokesman Paddy Ankunda told Reuters that only civilians were killed, adding the shells missed the presidency by about 500 metres and hit one of the many crowded camps.