Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Mohamed Amin
30 March 2007
Mogadishu — Heavy exchanges of machine guns and artillery resumed in Mogadishu earlier this morning at 6:30 am local time near Mogadishu's football stadium, where Ethiopian forces and Somali insurgents were digging trenches and facing each other few meters away.
The sound of heavy artillery could be heard in all parts of the capital city, while panic-stricken civilians are still fleeing from the city.
it is the second day clashes between Ethiopian forces and Somali insurgents, with no attempts of negotiations or cease being taken.
There are fears that the fighting may spread into new areas of the capital city.
At least thirty people were killed, including Ethiopian soldiers, while many more were wounded in yesterday's fighting, which was the fiercest since the Ethiopian soldiers helped the transitional federal government arrive in Mogadishu, which is one of the world's gun-infested cities.
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