A Somali soldier has killed five people and wounded three others in the famine-struck Somali capital as starving women and children gathered for food aid handouts, witnesses said. The soldier reportedly opened fire after desperate crowds started pushing and shoving each other at the food distribution center in Mogadishu's Waberi district, in the south of the war-torn capital. All those who died were displaced people who had fled drought or famine in the surrounding countryside, witnesses said. Somali security minister Mohamed Ali condemned the shooting.