The shootout between the two groups within the Somali security forces broke out at a military checkpoint at National theatre, near the hilltop Presidential palace in the capital.
The infighting erupted after the military soldiers denied a convoy carrying former Benadir Intelligence chief Isse Jiljile access to the main street over unknown circumstance.
The dispute has sparked a deadly shootout that left Jiljile and three of his bodyguards dead, while at least six others were maimed, according to the sources.
Early in the day, Mogadishu stabilization forces clashed with gunnies dressed in civilian clothes in separate areas in the capital, which led to the wound of one soldier.
The unit formed in last April has carried dozens of operations within the capital targeting illegal firearms, al-Shabaab
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the personification of Somali state failure...members and militia groups purporting to be government soldiers.