Calm has returned to parts of the Somali region under the Ethiopian control a day after tense situation, just as casualties of civilians rose, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
More than 15 Somali civilians were killed and about 30 others wounded by the Ethiopian troops as they had forcibly and deliberately attacked the residents in the Somali residents in El-dibir village under the control of Ethiopia on Saturday.
Reports say that the number of deaths reach 17excldung new bodies found in the area where the two sides fought yesterday, while more than 25 other injured there. The injured people were including some of them who were wounded in car accident between Burgesole and Abudwaq district of Galgudud region in central Somalia.
The accident occurred as two vehicles deploying injured civilians from El-dibir village and rushed to Abudwak district in central Somalia where they were being treated.
Witnesses told Shabelle radio that the Ethiopian troops killed Somali nomads keeping livestock in the forests adding they killed by the Ethiopian troops as out of humanity as those deceased were not aware of any tense and violence.
The traditional elders led by the peace maker of Sede clan had held meeting in Abudwaq district in Galgudud region in central Somalia and appointed a committee of 8 members to deploy the dead bodies killed by the Ethiopian troops and to make statistic for the people of the village though more people were still missing and thought that the Ethiopian troops had taken as prisoners.
Residents said the murdered people was among a well known peacemaker who reached there to mediate the Ethiopian troops and the Somali residents under the control of Ethiopia, how ever, the situation of the latest reports from the region indicate there was calm situation on Sunday morning as the people were still busy for collecting the dead bodies of the Somali civilian http://terror freesomalia.blogspot.com/2 ... se-in.html
