30 DIE IN FIGHTING OVER STOLEN FOOD IN SOMALIA.(Main)

Byline: Didrikke Schanche Associated Press

Thirty people were killed in fighting that broke out Sunday in Somalia after food intended for starving people was stolen by looters, a radio report said.

The United Nations had sent two planeloads of food over the weekend to Baidoa, 150 miles northwest of the capital of Mogadishu. Aid officials say hundreds of people are dying there daily, victims of the combined effects of drought and war. Officials said the United States is working to send 145,000 tons of food.

Mogadishu radio, which broadcasts in support of interim President Gen. Mohamed Ali Mahdi, said Somali Democratic Movement forces fought those of …