The death toll from yesterday’s fighting between government forces backed by AU peacekeepers and Islamist militants in Mogadishu has risen to 30, reports independent Shabelle website.
More than 100 people are said to have been injured in the fighting, most of them civilians, after mortar shells landed in civilian neighbourhoods in Mogadishu’s Holwadaag, Hodan, Yaaqshiid, Wardhiigley, Hiliwaa and Bakaaraha Market.
An emergency ambulance service group official, Ali Muse Shaykh told Shabeelle that the fighting has caused huge losses and that they transported about 80 injured people to Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital.