13 January 2010
The fourth day fighting between the Islamist forces of Hizbul Islam and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a is continuing in Beledweyn town in Hiran region, just as the casualties rose, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
More than 75 people were wounded in the fourth day fighting and the latest reports say that both sides were amassing reinforcement forces to restart the war.
Most of the injured people were civilians and were rushed to the main hospital of the town.
Locals said that the fighting was heavily started and continuing at around the neighborhoods between Bundoweyn and Liq-Liqato bridge in Beledweyn town as both the allied forces of Harakat Al-shabab Mijahideen with Hizbul Islam and Ahlu Sunna clerics were exchanging heavy weapons during the fourth day war.
Several mortar shells had landed into several business centers and neighborhoods in Beledweyn town that caused most of the people to flee from their houses.
More other were reported dead according to the people.
Yusuf Ahmed Hagar known as (Dabaged), one of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics and a former governor of Hiran region, who is involved in the fighting, told Shabelle radio that they had the upper hand of the fighting adding that they entered some of the neighborhoods of Beledweyn town.
Shuriye Farah Sabriye, the chairman of Hizbul Islam administration for Hiran region said that the situation of the town was tense before the fighting started on Wednesday morning adding that they would end the clashes in the town.
The real casualties of the two warring sides are unclear so far.
Residents told Shabelle radio that most of the people had displaced from the town as they could not tolerate the heavy gun battle that the fighters were exchanging.
Source: allAfrica.
Link: http://allafrica.com/stories/201001130851.html.
The fourth day fighting between the Islamist forces of Hizbul Islam and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a is continuing in Beledweyn town in Hiran region, just as the casualties rose, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
More than 75 people were wounded in the fourth day fighting and the latest reports say that both sides were amassing reinforcement forces to restart the war.
Most of the injured people were civilians and were rushed to the main hospital of the town.
Locals said that the fighting was heavily started and continuing at around the neighborhoods between Bundoweyn and Liq-Liqato bridge in Beledweyn town as both the allied forces of Harakat Al-shabab Mijahideen with Hizbul Islam and Ahlu Sunna clerics were exchanging heavy weapons during the fourth day war.
Several mortar shells had landed into several business centers and neighborhoods in Beledweyn town that caused most of the people to flee from their houses.
More other were reported dead according to the people.
Yusuf Ahmed Hagar known as (Dabaged), one of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics and a former governor of Hiran region, who is involved in the fighting, told Shabelle radio that they had the upper hand of the fighting adding that they entered some of the neighborhoods of Beledweyn town.
Shuriye Farah Sabriye, the chairman of Hizbul Islam administration for Hiran region said that the situation of the town was tense before the fighting started on Wednesday morning adding that they would end the clashes in the town.
The real casualties of the two warring sides are unclear so far.
Residents told Shabelle radio that most of the people had displaced from the town as they could not tolerate the heavy gun battle that the fighters were exchanging.
Source: allAfrica.
Link: http://allafrica.com/stories/201001130851.html.
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