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Somalia: Fresh Fighting Occurs in Mogadishu Overnight


 

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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

18 January 2008
Posted to the web 18 January 2008

Mogadishu

Armed groups have attacked on Ethiopian troop's army base on district situated on the outskirt of Mogadishu on Thursday night.

The fighting has in progress on a night time when Ethiopian soldiers based in Maslah area where assaulted by the insurgents in addition to heavy shelling and bullet barrages were made use of in the skirmishing time.

According to the residents the combating did not last more time, in the face of that its unfamiliar the casualty of that hostility of the two warring sides. Two civilians are confirmed to have wounded in the fighting those couldn't manage to have first aid after they missed any access to the health centers one of the wounded people is in serious situation. Else where at least one hundred civilians wounded on Thursday in a fighting occurred in the sprawling capital were brought at hospitals in Mogadishu" medical sources told shabelle English section, although it's not officially known the death toll reasoned by one of the heaviest bombardments took place in Mogadishu on Thursday.

Civilians have borne the brunt of almost daily fighting in Mogadishu between Ethiopian-backed government forces and the remnants of an Islamist militia that briefly controlled large parts of the country at the end of 2006.

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The African nation has been plagued by civil unrest since the 1991 ouster of Dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, and defied numerous peace initiatives.



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