Mogadishu, May 27: Fresh clashes in Somalia have left at least six people dead and 17 others wounded near the capital city of Mogadishu, witnesses say.
Somali government forces attacked al-Shabab fighters late Wednesday, a Media correspondent reported on Thursday.
“The dead included two civilians who were killed by mortar fire in Yaqshid district,” an eyewitness told Media.
According to medics, the wounded civilians were transferred to local hospitals for medical treatment.
Somalia has been the scene of everyday fighting between government forces and local fighters — both trying to take control of the capital, while the rest of the country is mostly controlled by anti-government forces.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since warlords toppled President Siad Barre in 1991.
Thousands of people have been killed and thousands more have been displaced in the nearly two decades of chaos.
——–Agencies