“Eighty wounded civilians were brought into our hospital alone in the past 24 hours”, Dr Hassan Gutale, Manager of Daynile Hospital, told Insidesomalia, “some others were also e taken to the other hospitals in the capital”

The latest clashes began Thursday after Ethiopian troops tried to carry out searches for suspected insurgents and weapons in some nieghbourhoods in the capital but the troops faced stiff resistance from fighters and two of their soldiers were killed and dragged by angry mobs through streets of the city.

Nearly 30 bodies of civilians were found in some districts of the capital Mogadishu, where Ethiopian troops were stationed. Residents said the civilians were killed overnight by the Ethiopian troops.

“The Ethiopians angry because of their killed fiends carried out this massacre” said Yasiin Guure, a resident of Suqa Holaha nieghbourhood were 12 of the dead bodies were found. “The dead include old men, women and children, some had their throats slit, and others were shot in the head”.

Heavy artillery including tanks were used in the battles that raged on into the late afternoon.

20 other people were also killed in the Friday fight when a shell fell into a busy market area in Bakara Market, the largest in the capital, and in Black Sea area, according to witnesses.

The latest upsurge of fighting comes as thousands more of the city’s residents are fleeing the renewed violence.

Somalia has been without central authority since former President Mohamed Siyad Barre was overthrown in 1991.

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