Some 34 people were killed and 80 wounded, some seriously, in two days of clashes this week between rival clans in central Somalia, elders told AFP. "Around 34 people were killed and 80 others were wounded by renewed clashes (on Monday and Tuesday) in the central Somali town of Herale," one elder in the region told AFP on Tuesday. "The fighting erupted on Monday afternoon and continued until Tuesday between Dir and Marehan clans," said the elder. The fighting had died down by midday Tuesday, even though no official ceasefire had been agreed, the elder added. The clashes were the latest in a series of tit-for-tat confrontations rooted in the April murder of a Marehan elder, allegedly by Dir clansmen.
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