(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) At least 20 people have been killed in Somalia's breakaway
region of Somaliland in clashes between anti-government protesters
and security forces over several days, according to a doctor at a
public hospital, trend reports citing reuters .
For more than a week police and the military have been battling
the protesters in Laascaanood, a town in Somaliland's east which is
disputed between Somaliland and neighbouring Puntland, one of
Somalia's semi-autonomous regions.
Mohamed Farah, a doctor at Laascaanood Hospital, a public
facility in Laascaanood, told Reuters at least 20 people had been
killed and dozens injured. He said he had seen the bodies of
victims brought into the facility.
Protesters are demanding that Somaliland cede control of the
town to Puntland and also accuse security forces of failing to end
insecurity in the town.
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