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| Fresh clashes in Mogadishu claims 11 lives |
| 2008-05-28 |
| (SomaliNet) Heavy fighting erupted in Somali capital Mogadishu Monday leaving over eleven civilians dead, witnesses said. According to the residents, the incident sparked off when armed Islamist groups attacked at AMISOM troops later Monday. News sources said eight of the dead civilians were killed after mortar fired by one of warred groups has landed in a house situated in Former Banadir Hospital while two others died at the rear of Ambassador Hotel next to Km4 area. A young boy also died in the vicinity of former Digfer hospital. According to reports, the battle started after armed groups assaulted an AMISOM Ugandan troops at Km4 area where the two sides have randomly opened fire on each other. The spokesman of AMISOM troops in Somalia Major-Barigye-Bo-hoku told Shabelle by phone that their soldiers were unharmed excluding that they have killed two of the Islamist attackers. "We killed two attackers' AMISOM soldiers professionally fired back at the assailants and they run away," Bo-hoku said in the interview. He also denied some reports from the warred area saying that the civilian died in a mortar fired from AMISOM troop's army base in KM4. Further reports indicate that Alshabab Islamic group has claimed the responsibility of that attack. |
| Posted by:Steve White |