BBC: At least 113 civilians have been killed and more than 200 injured in three days of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a human rights group says. The Elman Peace and Human Rights agency said it got the figures from hospitals, other humanitarian groups and counting bodies abandoned in the streets.
Heavy fighting is continuing, as Ethiopian troops clash with Somali clan militiamen and Islamist fighters.
The UN says more than 320,000 people have fled the fighting since February.
The new figure represents nearly a third of the population of the capital and is significantly higher than previous estimates.
I’ll follow up on this one.
