Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Clashes between Somali troops backed by African Union forces and al-Shabab fighters have left at least 8 people dead and 23 others injured in Mogadishu.

The victims lost their lives early on Wednesday when al-Shabab fighters launched an attack against Somali soldiers in Mogadishu’s southern district of Medina, the Press TV correspondent in the Somali capital reported.
Somali ambulance workers ferried the injured to the Medina Hospital.
Separately, a civilian was killed in the Hodan district of war-weary Mogadishu when clashes broke out between Somali forces and al-Shabab fighters.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in a new report has stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and children, were admitted to Mogadishu’s Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-wounded women and children admitted to the hospitals.
Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and children, were taken to Mogadishu’s two referral hospitals in 2009.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have lost their lives in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
Somalia now has more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs). Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions at makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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Source:- Press TV.

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