At least 113 civilians have been killed during three days of heavy fighting in the Somali capital, The Associated Press quoted a Somali human rights group as sying today. Between Wednesday and 2 p.m. (1100GMT) Friday, 229 people were wounded, said Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of the decade-old Elman Human Rights Organization. He said his organization collated the figures from hospitals, local residents and its agents recording burials in Mogadishu. «We condemn both sides of the conflict and call on them to immediately stop the mass massacre in the capital,» Ahmed told The Associated Press. On Friday, the U.N. refugee agency revised its estimates of people who fled Mogadishu to 321,000, up from 218,000 this week, saying the additional figures were from new information about Mogadishu residents who had fled to central Somalia towns. Somalia's capital is estimated to have a population of 2 million people.
