Somalis flee capital after sixth day of shelling

04/23/2007

ABC NEWS
April 23, 2007


Somalis fled a sixth day of shelling in Mogadishu, desperate to leave a capital where a rights group said allied Somali-Ethiopian troops killed 37 people on Monday in an offensive to wipe out Islamist rebels.

That brought the death toll from the latest violence to at least 267, according to the local Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation, which tracks casualties from hospitals, families and counts on the street, where bodies rot in the sun.

As hundreds of terrified residents continued fleeing the coastal city, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR warned of scenes of growing chaos as crowds of tired, hungry people demanded help.

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