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Somalis flee as another day of shelling rocks capital
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Somalis flee as another day of shelling rocks capital
Somalis fled heavy shelling for a sixth day in Mogadishu yesterday, as the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies pursued a campaign to wipe out Islamist insurgents in the capital. “Anybody who has any means of fleeing the area has left,” said Mohamed, a resident close to the scene of the clashes.
At least 230 people have died since the latest fighting escalated last week, local human rights activists say. Hospital wards were so crowded that doctors tended to the wounded in tents and under trees. A previous four-day spike in violence at the end of March killed more than 1,000 people, mainly civilians. The interim government is struggling to gain full control of the capital four months after ousting rival Islamist leaders who ruled much of south Somalia in the second half of 2006.
Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said there would be no let-up in the fighting until the government crushed armed resistance by Islamist fighters, backed by foreign jihadists and some disgruntled Hawiye clansmen.
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