Rival pirate’s deadly clash over ransom [Video]

Calm has returned to Harardere town in the north of the Somali country, just after bitter confrontation between pirates that caused casualties of deaths and injuries, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

Residents said that the situation of the town was calm on Tuesday after more of the traditional elders and scholars of the region brought troops between the two rival sides to solve the tense between the Somali pirates who fought there as they disagreed a ransom payment that one of the jacked ships released.

At least 4 people were killed and more others wounded during clashes that continued yesterday until overnight according to the people in the Mudug region saying that the situation of the town seemed calm on Tuesday morning.

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This is funny really, now we have a whole new dimension to Somalia’s problems, somehow the country keeps reinventing itself and presenting some new problems that no one expected or thought were possible. Rival pirate gangs? who are fighting over ransom paid by their hostages is definitely new to me, this will soon develop further and rival pirates will get busy fight each other, trawlers will then come back and start sucking the fish out of the Somali coast again.