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Somaliland Police started the forceful eviction of people residing in the derelict building of the Hargeisa Group Hospital. The residents resisted the eviction and threw a Molotov cocktail and stones towards the Somaliland forces. Somaliland forces responded by shooting at the rioters, killing two of them and injuring two others. The location has been inhabited by poor families/IDPs who settled in the abandoned facility in the 1990's. The Somaliland Government had recently decided to rehabilitate the building and make it functional again, and had proposed a relocation plan to these families. The plan included the provision of plots and of 500 USD grants. Most families had already been relocated voluntarily and only a small group refusing to be relocated was remaining in the building |
