Residents flee Mogadishu bombing

04/23/2007

Ireland.com
April 23, 2007


Residents of Mogadishu are fleeing the city today as the shelling of Islamist strongholds by the interim government and its Ethiopian military allies enters its sixth day.

At least 230 people have died since the latest fighting escalated last Wednesday, local human rights activists say. Hospital wards are so crowded that doctors are tending to the wounded in tents and under trees.

The latest battles are centred on an insurgent stronghold in Mogadishu where corpses lay rotting in the sun.

An earlier four-day spike in violence at the end of March killed more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians.

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