Somalia: 32 people wounded in clashes

As many as 32 Islamist insurgents have been wounded during a clash with African Union peacekeepers together with the Somali transitional federal government in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.Rebels from the al Shabaab group exchanged gun fire and artillery shelling with AMISOM peacekeeping troops and TFG troops in the latest wave of fighting.In the last 24 hours, we have received 32 wounded civilians. Most of them are women and children as a result of the continuing mortar and artillery shelling. Some 21 of them are in serious conditions and were hospitalised but the others were sent back to their homes after we gave them the treatment they needed, Medina hospital's deputy chief doctor Duniyah Ali said.Thousands of civilians have fled the Somali capital fearing a government offensive against the attacking Islamist rebels.Violence in Somalia has killed 19,000 civilians since the start of 2007 and uprooted a further 1.5 million people, helping to trigger one of the world's worst humanitarian emergencies.