Reports reaching us from Galgadud region indicate that nine bullet-riddled dead bodies have been found near the conflict-hit Da’deer village in central Somalia.
Local elders say they buried the bodies after removing them from a semi-forest area, just outside Da’deer on Monday. The residents blame Liyu police for the mass killings.
Ad’eed Sheikh Doon, who is a local traditional elder in the area, told Radio Shabelle Liyu Police forces have increasing their daily attacks on villagers and killing people who keep livestock at the areas near Somali border with Ethiopia.
It was not apparently clear what sparked the clashes, which are separate from ongoing battles between African Union troops and Al-Qaeda-linked Al shabaab militants in the far south of the country.
Since last year, there have been clashes in and around Da’deere village that involved Somali clan militia and members of the Liyu police, an Ethiopian paramilitary unit operating in Ethiopia’s ethnic Somali region.
