At Least 13 Killed in Fighting Sunday in Somali Capital

At least 13 people have been killed on Sunday in heavy fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when Ethiopian troops backing the interim government clashed with heavily armed Islamic fighters, eyewitnesses said.

Fighting broke out around the capital’s main live-stock market north east of the city as Ethiopian forces searched the dead bodies of two of their soldiers killed in the area on Saturday, Aden Shire, told APA by phone.

Shire said the Ethiopians wanted to to recover and bury the bodies of yesterday’s fighting when they were attacked at dawn on Sunday and noted that the fighting was much more heavier than on Saturday.

Ethiopian tanks and their infantry forces battled with the insurgents in the streets of Hurwa and Yaqshid Neighborhoods, areas believed to be the strong-holds of the Anti Ethiopian and insurgency.

“Two of the Ethiopian troops and a government soldier were among nine bodies I had seen laying in deferent places” said another witness Mohamed Sayid-Ali.

In the nearby Wahar-ade neighborhood four civilians, including a seven year-old girl were killed and five others wounded, when mortar bombs and tank gun-fire slammed into their houses.

“The mortars and tank fire rained down on us, killing my seven year-old daughter and three of my neighbors, now I am tending my husband here, he has got leg injuries,” said Nasteho Moa,lim.

Source African Press Agency

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