Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
15 March 2009
Mogadishu — At least ten people mostly combatants were killed and two were injured after Al-Shabab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a Islamists fought in Wabho Village in central Somalia, witnesses told radio Shabelle on Sunday.
The fighting started after Ahlu Sunna Waljma'a forces attacked the village where al-Shabab has been controlling and both sides used heavy machine guns and artillery fire.
Witnesses told radio Shabelle that eight combatants and one civilian woman were killed in the fighting.
Sources indicate that the fighting intensified and restarted this morning after the fighters got reinforcements.
Civilians started to flee from the fighting areas where the two groups are fighting each other.
Ahlu Sunna and al-Shabab fought in central Somalia for several times.
Ahlu Sunna Waljamca is a moderate religious organization that does not have a political ambition and supports the new government led by president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed while al-Shabaab vowed to keep on fighting against the new government.
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