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Mogadishu, (InsideSomalia.org) Three people were killed and eleven others wounded by overnight cross shelling of heavy artilleries in Suqa-holaha, north eastern of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, local sources confirmed.
Islamist fighters in the area fired Maslah military camp, currently a base of the Ethiopian forces in the country and in response the military shelled Suqa-holaha environs, witnesses said.
Tensions remain high in the deserted areas of the neighborhood.
Yesterday, many parts of the this villages were cut off from the city centre by search operation of Ethiopian troops in former Maslah military camp and their colleagues in former spaghetti factory in Hiliwaa.
The death of these people came after relatives failed to take their loved ones to hospitals since roadblocks and horror night-time movement in the capital made incredibly not easy to go outside for such important services.
Mogadishu's increasingly fierce insurgency began in early February last year, a month after Ethiopian-led forces drove out Somalia's Islamic courts brief regime from the capital and ended their six month rule over much of southern and central Somalia.
International human rights organizations say the situation is a forgotten catastrophe. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth condemned the death of the civilians in his annual report late last month.
The report said grave human rights abuses are fueling the worsening humanitarian crisis in Somalia.
Ongoing clashes in the capital left nearly 300 Somalis dead and hundreds more wounded last month, a local human rights group said Saturday.
Elman Human Rights said 292 people had been killed and another 325 wounded in Mogadishu in January. Civilians are frequently caught in the crossfire between government troops and their Ethiopian allies and Eritrean-backed Islamic insurgents.
"Those who are behind the human rights violations should be brought to justice," said Sudan Ali Ahmed, the organization's chairman.
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