MOGADISHU, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy was shot dead when a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad turned violent in northeastern Somalia on Monday, residents and hospital sources said.
They said police intervened after demonstrators started hurling stones at offices of international aid groups in the town of Bosaso, which lies in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
"Those who threw stones were mostly children and under-age people, and police tried to stop the action," a witness told Reuters by telephone.
Hospital sources did not give details how the boy died, but said at least nine other people were wounded in the unrest.
Mainly Muslim Somalia has been without a functioning government since warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, but Puntland is relatively calm, with its own government and police force.
A wave of anger has swept the Muslim world over the publication of the cartoons, one of which shows the Prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.
First printed in Denmark, the cartoons have appeared in newspapers across Europe, as well as in the United States.
