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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - More than 1,700 civilians were killed and 2,000 wounded in Somalia during the past year, a local human rights organization said Saturday.
Elman Human Rights Group said most of the deaths from March 9, 2006, to March 10, 2007, occurred in Mogadishu, one of the world's most violent and gun-infested cities. The group based its estimated figures on hospital reports and interviews with wounded victims in the country that has seen little more than anarchy for more than a decade.
Much of the death toll stems from months of battles that culminated in a radical Islamic militia wresting control of southern Somalia from an alliance of warlords in June.
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