Calm has returned to Harardere town in the north of the Somali country, just after bitter confrontation between pirates that caused casualties of deaths and injuries, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

Residents said that the situation of the town was calm on Tuesday after more of the traditional elders and scholars of the region brought troops between the two rival sides to solve the tense between the Somali pirates who fought there as they disagreed a ransom payment that one of the jacked ships released.

At least 4 people were killed and more others wounded during clashes that continued yesterday until overnight according to the people in the Mudug region saying that the situation of the town seemed calm on Tuesday morning.

Abdirahman Shati Adde, the deputy president of Himan and Heb in the area expressed sorrowful about the fighting between the pirates that happened in parts of the region accusing that the people of Harardere town were behind the clashes stressing those people refused to form administration for the town earlier.

Most of clashes between the Somali pirates are caused by ransom money that is forcibly taken from the hijacked ships in the coast of Somalis which they often dispute when dividing.