Calmness returns back to Makadishu

Calm returned on Tuesday back to Makadishu following various confrontations that took place in the recent five days between supporters of war lords and police members that belong to the provisional government which claimed the killing of 70 victims.

News reports said that the outcome of the victims of the confrontations, according to testimonies and figures given by the militias and medical sources were at least 72 persons including 50 civilians besides wounding 150 persons.

On the other hand the TV Horn Afrique station stationed in Makadishu on Tuesday talked about the killing of 75 persons during five days to the north of the capital and 15 others in the south.Worthy mentioning that first confrontations erupted on July 12 and 13 between two clans of al-Abqal tribe in a crowded market in " Souq Bad" in the north in which at least 20 persons were killed.