At least five people have been killed and 18 others injured on Tuesday after AMISOM troops launched mortars at KM 13 area in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.

The conflicts came after Al-Shabaab attacked AMISOM based in Madina district, the dead and wounded people were civilians.

KM 13 is an area for the people who fled from the conflicts in the capital.

"The mortars started midnight while we were sleeping, the people shocked. Majority who were displaced was women and children “said Ahmed Caga-weyne one of the IDPs at KM13 camps.

Maryan Ali, an IDP mother of six, which her house was burnt after mortars hit told Garowe Online "the mortar erupted near my neighbor’s houses, some of them dead and injured critically,"

She adds they slept outside of the camps.

Dr. Abdirizak Ali Elmi [Washington], one of the Al-Hayat hospital doctors at KM 15, said they receive at midnight eight civilians who were critically injured by the mortars.

Early on Tuesday the displaced people at KM13 camps fled from their homes after AMISOM troops shelled mortars at the camps.

Somali government and AMISOM officers refused to comment about that incident.

GAROWE ONLINE