Re: Dozens dead in Somali clan clashes

On Mar 19, 2:10 pm, kadiye8 <amaan...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At least 40 people, including civilians and Ethiopian soldiers, are
killed and nearly 50 others injured in clan clashes in Somalia.

In the worst fighting that erupted in the early morning in north
Mogadishu, hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers attacked Heliwa district,
killing at least six civilians including a 13-year-old boy, Press TV
correspondent in south Mogadishu reported on Wednesday.

Al-Shabaab fighters, getting support from the people in the area,
attacked the Ethiopians by hand-made grenades, killing at least 35
soldiers, the correspondent added.

Witnesses confirmed that even more civilians were killed by angry
Ethiopians and the streets were drowned in blood.

Disputes over land and other issues between rival clans in Somalia
regularly give way to fierce clashes.

Mogadishu - Fighting between insurgents and government troops rocked
the Somali capital Mogadishu Wednesday, leaving at least 12 people
killed, officials said, in ongoing clashes that have killed thousands
since January 2007.

The battle, which broke out in northern Mogadishu, was the worst in a
month as each side fired machine guns, lobbed grenades and flung
mortars at the other.

The escalated fighting came as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon said peacekeepers might be sent to Somalia should certain
conditions, like an agreed ceasefire, be met.

'I woke up hearing residents yelling as they were escaping Ethiopian
soldiers in the streets,' said Leylo Mo'alim, 29.

Doctors and nurses said at least 20 people were admitted to hospitals
around the bullet-scarred capital.

'Insurgents tried to retrieve the bodies on the road but the crossfire
rained down from both sides so they were unable,' said Mahad Sadeek,
who witnessed the clash.

The Ethiopian-backed transitional government rolled into the capital
in January 2007, unleashing a brutal, Iraq-style insurgency that has
displaced more than 600,000 people in what the UN calls the world's
worst and most neglected humanitarian crisis.

Somalia has had no effective central rule since the 1991 toppling of
dictator Mohammed Siad Barre, which plunged the Horn of Africa country
into lawlessness and insecurity.
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