Bitter confrontation between the security forces of the Transitional government and African Union troops MISOM has broken out at Aden Adde international airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

Reports say that the fighting between the two sides came as a Ugandan soldier who was keeping guard at the airport suspected another military vehicle of the TFG that mounted a heavy gun which caused the two sides to exchange heavy gunfire injuring Somali government soldiers.

It is unclear what casualties reached the AU troops and there is no comment from both sides about taday's fighting so far.

Residents around that airport said told Shabelle radio that the fighting between the two sides continued for a while saying that they knew nothing about the real casualties of their conflict.

It is the first such confrontation between the transitional government and African Union troops AMISOM since their arrival of AMISOM in Mogadishu in 2007