Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
3 September 2008
Mogadishu — At least two people have been killed and more than others wounded in an armed confrontation between Somali troops and Islamist fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday early morning, eyewitnesses said..
Both sides used rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-aircraft machine guns and assault rifles in the firefight at the city's animal market.
The dead and wounded were civilians those have been struck in the crossfire.
Alshabab Islamic group has claimed the responsibility of that attack, saying that the TFG troops have suffered" heavy losses"
The spokesman of Somalia's military force, Colonel Dahir Hersi, said the policemen were attacked by what he described as outlawed militiamen intent on creating lawlessness.
He added that two of the assailants were killed.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting broke out when policemen at a checkpoint near Bakara market have been attacked by the islamist fighters.
Somali troops have fired two mortars into the main Bakara market, but no causalities were reported in those shellings.
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