Somalia: Uneasy calm returns to Galkayo city following deadly fighting

Uneasy calm has returned to Galkayo town, Mudug regional capital, after Galmudug and Puntland forces fought bloody gun battles in Garsoor area on Sunday.

The local elders began Monday a mediation efforts to stop the hostility between Galmudug and Puntland, two nighbouring regional state administrations in central and northeastern Somalia.

Up to 7 people were killed while 20 others sustained injuries in the clashes that first broke out over a a road construction by Puntland on the Galmudug administered southern side of Galkayo town.

Twenty people were wounded, some of them caritically in the fighting and taken to Galkayo hospital where are currently being treated, according to medics.