Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
12 July 2009
Mogadishu — Fresh fighting between the Islamist forces and government soldiers has restarted in Abdi Aziz district in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
More people were killed and many others were injured in yesterday's fighting in Mogadishu those most of them cured in the hospitals.
Residents said that the fighting started between Bar Fiat and Global hotel in the north of the capital and spread other neighborhoods like Jubba hotel and Manabolyo intersection there as the two warring sides involving the battle are exchanging heavy weapons.
Abdifatah Ibrahim Shaweye, the deputy governor of Banadir region claimed victory about the fighting between the government soldiers and the Islamist forces that is currently going on in the north of Mogadishu adding that their soldiers are near Keysanai hospital where he said that heavy clashes erupted between the two sides.
There is no comment from the other side of the fighting. The emergency help traffic officials told Shabelle radio that they took at least 6 injured people from the warring zones and rushed to the hospitals in the capital.
Reports say that the few people remained in the north are still fleeing from their houses as the sound of heavy gunfire could be heard all directions there.
There is no real information about the casualties of the fighting between the transitional government soldiers and Islamist forces in Mogadishu.
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