Sunday, April 22, 2007

Somalia clashes - 52 dead

52 killed in clashes in Somali capital (AP)

A Somali mother watches over her wounded forty day-old son in Medina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, April 20, 2007. Three days of fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing the government has killed at least 113 civilians, a Somali human rights group said on Friday. The U.N. said hundreds of thousands of residents had fled. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor) Relatives put a Somali  man on a stretcher at Medina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, April 20, 2007.AP - Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian soldiers turned the streets of the Somali capital into a battleground for a fourth straight day, firing rockets and mortar rounds at each other on Saturday in what a human rights official said was the worst violence in years.


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