Mogadishu - A sniper on Tuesday fired a shot at Mogadishu port during a visit by Somalia's speaker of parliament and a delegation of lawmakers though no one was injured, a military commander said.
"It was a sniper shot from very far away and was not aimed at the speaker," Mogadishu port commander Mohammed Jama Fur told an AFP correspondent who heard the shot.
Military commanders were accompanying speaker Shariff Hassan Sheikh Aden and about 70 lawmakers who were scouting for sites for government offices - now based in exile in the Kenyan capital Nairobi - amid efforts to revive the infrastructure of this war-wracked Muslim country.
"Maybe the sniper's target was elsewhere and he was not aware that the delegation was visiting the port," another military commander said.
The parliamentary delegation, which includes warlords, is looking into the security situation in the lawless city and meeting with local leaders, clan elders and other Somali authorities in the search to relocate government offices.
This Horn of Africa nation of about 10 million people has been a theatre of anarchic bloodletting since Siad Barre was toppled in 1991, triggering a rapid collapse of the government, security and infrastructure.
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, elected last October, his government led by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi and parliament have been based in Nairobi amid continued fears of instability in their country. - Sapa-AFP