Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

Somalia: Calm Returns to Mogadishu

3 July 2009

Mogadishu — Calm has returned to Karan and Hwl-wadag district in the Somali capital Mogadishu where yesterday's clashes killed more in the capital.

About 25 people were killed and more than 60 others were injured in the fighting between the two warring sides in the capital Mogadishu.

Most the people who died in the fighting were civilians as there is calm situation in the areas where heavy fighting continued on Thursday.

The fighting in Hawl-wadag district started as the government soldiers attacked a strongholds of the Islamist forces causing more casualties including deaths, injuries and loss of property.

Reports say that the warring sides are still in their positions of the fighting as the situation of both districts Karan and Hawl-wadag returned calm on Friday morning.

We shall keep updating you any more about the situation in Mogadishu.

Tagged: Conflict, East Africa, Somalia

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