The death toll of yesterdays' mortar shelling attacks rose to 10, and 55 others, just as most of those people were rushed hospitals in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Monday.

Residents said that there was no fighting in the city when the mortar shelling started at parts of both districts in Mogadishu adding that all those who killed and injured during that mortars were civilians.

Ali Muse, head of ambulances and emergency responders confirmed to Shabelle radio that they took many injured people to the hospitals in the capital pointing out that most of those wounded people were collected from neighborhoods of Hiliwa and Yaqshid districts in Banadir region.

"It started on Sunday evening and continued until hours. We remembered the presence and fighting of the Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu. We do not know the reason that we have been bombed. Look, look, this man is bleeding, those women are dead, that child is wounded, waw! Waw! I sow more than 7 with my eyes. They were including children and women," said one scared witnesses.

Shebelle's Mohamed Mohamud (Timo Adde) reported that he, himself could see three of 5 dead people and more than 14 wounded civilians most of them women and children at Suqa-holaha neighborhood in Heliwa district north Mogadishu.

More of the residents around the shelled areas and the other parts of the capital expressed concern about the unprecedented bombardment that started on Sunday evening and continued until overnight and it shelling came as there had been fighting between the rival sides in the Somali capital.