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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Grenade attacks, bombs and gunbattles killed 31 civilians in Mogadishu in the most violent 24 hours the Somali capital had seen in two months, a local human rights group said Tuesday.
The bloodshed began Monday when insurgents attacked government bases, said Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of Elman Human Rights, an independent Somali group. His organization arrived at the death toll by contacting hospitals and doing its own surveys throughout the city.
"Thirty-one civilians were killed and another 60 were wounded in the past 24 hours," Ahmed told The Associated Press. Ahmed said that the last time so many civilians were killed in 24 hours was between June 3 and June 4.
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