Many dead in Mogadishu fighting
Heavy machine gun and artillery used in clashes between Somali troops and fighters.
Published On 24 Feb 2009
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Several residents said that two civilians had been hit by stray bullets near the scene of clashes and three others were killed when a mortar shell struck a house.
A medical official said that more than 20 wounded people had been transferred to the city’s Medina hospital.
The clashes follow Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on an AU base in the Somali capital, which left 11 Burundi soldiers dead.
The bombing, for which the al-Shabab armed group claimed responsibility, was the deadliest so far against the African Union Mission in Somalia.