almotamar.net Google - Mogadishu 25, Feb.07 ( Sh.M.Network) - The remaining residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu have voiced anxieties over the ongoing mortar artillery bombs exchanged by unknown gunmen and the Ethiopian forces based in Mogadishu, demanding the attacks should be halted bilaterally.
The exchanges of artillery and mortars between the insurgents and the Ethiopian troops claimed the lives of more than 100 civilians, while several hundreds of people were wounded.
housands of families have been fleeing the capital in the past two weeks after a large number of internally displaced people vacated their refugee camps for contingents of Ethiopian troops.
Following Friday’s artillery and mortar rounds exchanges between Somalia’s insurgents and the Ethiopian troops in the capital Mogadishu in which at least eight civilians were killed and dozens were wounded, residents in Mogadishu began fleeing the volatile city on Saturday morning.
Neighborhoods around former Somali defense compound, currently an Ethiopian military base, where heavy skirmishes between the insurgents and the Ethiopian forces occurred in late Friday afternoon is reported calm today as residents vacated their homes fearing other probable attacks against Ethiopian troops in the capital.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 were injured, most of them seriously, in the very neighborhoods after Ethiopian troops launched artillery attacks on them while responding the insurgent’s mortar attacks on 20 February.
78 people who were wounded in the crossfire and heavy mortar bombs in Mogadishu have been admitted to Mogadishu’s Medina hospital in the past 24 hours.
Somalia has had no affective central government since 1991 when warlords toppled former president Mohammed Siad Barre, and then turned on another plunging the impoverished country into chaos.