Somalia's dead buried in mass grave

Dozens of bodies were buried in a mass grave in Somalia’s capital after the worst fighting in 15 years killed hundreds of people and sent tens of thousands fleeing the battle-scarred city for safety.

Somalia's dead buried in mass grave

Dozens of bodies were buried in a mass grave in Somalia’s capital after the worst fighting in 15 years killed hundreds of people and sent tens of thousands fleeing the battle-scarred city for safety.

As a fragile ceasefire held in the coastal capital, Mogadishu, residents cleared the dusty alleyways and back streets of the unclaimed dead killed during four days of heavy fighting, and loaded them onto trucks for burial at the city’s largest cemetery.

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