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Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between troops of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland and its semi-autonomous region of Puntland, medical workers and military officials from both sides said.

The two sides engaged in fierce fighting on Tuesday over the ownership of Tuka Raq village, which had been
seized by Somaliland in April.

The village is close to Garowe, the capital of Puntland.

Yesterday, 45 dead soldiers and dozens of others injured were brought in. Three people died of their wounds
today including two Somaliland military officers,” Farah Said, a doctor at Lasanod town, told Reuters.

One doctor at Garowe hospital, told Reuters that 21 injured people had been brought in on Tuesday.

“Two of them died of their wounds today,” he said.

Residents reported sporadic shelling in the area of the fighting on Wednesday, as rain and burials for the dead kept a lid on military activities.

resident Mohamed Abdullahi of Somalia urged elders and civil society groups on Tuesday to mediate between the two states and end the violence.



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