Mogadishu — At least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded after violence with shelling between the transitional government soldiers backing by AMISOM troops and Islamist forces, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday. Other reports said 10 people were killed and 21 wounded.

Most of the clashes continued at Taleh, Digfer Hospital, KM4, a strategic base for the AMISOM troops, all in parts of Hodan district in south of the capital and both used heavy gunfire which resulted in the deaths more people most of them civilians according the residents around where the clashes happened today.

Mohamed Abukar Abdi, a freelance journalist told Shabelle radio that he witnessed the deaths of 4 people and more 13 others at parts of the neighborhoods of Hodan district in Mogadishu

Heavy shellings were reportedly landed at Daynile and Yaqshid districts in the capital but the real casualties of those areas are unclear so far and violence follows heavy fighting between the allied troops of AMISOM and TFG and Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen with Hizbul Islam that lost the lives of more than 10 and injuries of 30 others in Mogadishu until overnight.