Most of those killed are the combatants but there also civilian casualties on the both sides of Galkayo.”

Another resident, Bile Abdulahi, said there was no fighting on Monday but that the city remained tense. Colonel Mohamed Aden, a military officer from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said 16 soldiers serving in the region's army had been killed and 30 been wounded since fighting broke out again on Sunday. "We were shocked to see Puntland forces inside Galkayo south and pounding us with shells and bullets," Hirsi Yusuf Barre, mayor of Galkayo south, which is controlled by militias loyal to Galmudug, told Reuters.
Fighting between militias in Galkayo, Somalia, leaves at least 29 dead.