Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
28 October 2009
At least 4 people have been killed and 11 others have been wounded after fresh fighting with heavy shelling broke out in several neighborhoods in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
Reports say that the fighting started at Mekka Al-mukarama street, a key road that connects the presidential palace and Km4, a base for the African Union troops AMSIOM as the AU troops tried to start military movement around there which caused to spread further districts like Hodan, Hawl-wadag and Waberi all in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Reports say that 4 people died during the fighting including government officer and a teenager who died at around Dabka intersection in Mogadishu as bitter shelling from the side of the AMSIOM troops were landing into many areas in Bakara Market.
Eyewitnesses told Shabelle's Mohamed Bashir that three passengers were also wounded at the front gate of Kulliyad Jalle Sia'd, the main base of the Burundian troops as a truck driver of a mini bus they traveling stopped there which caused the AU troops especially Burundians to open fire and wound three of the passengers while the others escaped from the accident.
Most of the people died or wounded in the clashes between the transitional government soldiers backing by AMISOM and Islamist fighters were civilians and were rushed to the hospitals according to health officials in Mogadishu.
The fighting had also halted all movements of the traffic, people and business in the capital though the real casualties of the war are not yet clear.
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