Mogadishu — Somalia's warring parties pounded each other with artillery in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning in different areas in the city, according to eyewitnesses.

Witnesses said at least 2 people were killed.

The bombed-out has experienced different deadly attacks.

Government forces and their Ethiopian allies responded with missiles, heavy machine guns and mortar rounds of their own when an armed insurgent groups attacked troops in the areas of Yaqshiid, Hiliwa, Wardhigley and Karan in Mogadishu.

As usual in Somalia, civilians bore the brunt of the fighting. At least two residents died and from wounds in Madina hospital when one shell detonated in the Mogadishu university.

One of the deceased people was a well-known professor that is to say, Ahmed Jimale(Kastaro) while the other was university student.

"A group of students were sitting in the university, a shell hit nearby and seriously injured one of them and one of our lecturers," one of the university students who declined to reveal his name.

Since early 2007 the Islamists have waged an Iraq-style insurgency of mortar attacks, roadside bombings and assassinations targeting the fragile Western-back interim government and its Ethiopian military allies.

Fighting in Somalia has killed more than 9,500 civilians since the start of last year, and an unknown number of gunmen. More than 1 million people have been forced from their homes.