 (SomaliNet) At least four people have been killed and six others were wounded in a gun battle that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu between the Ethiopian backed interim government forces and an insurgent group on Tuesday. All the dead and injured people were believed to be civilians hit by the exchanged fires.
The latest confrontation came when masked insurgents launched an ambush attack on the Ethiopian soldiers who began searching for weapons in houses near the former defense ministry compound in south of Mogadishu. The Ethiopian troops are said to have used heavy weaponry causing civilian casualty.
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It was a rare attack in which the insurgents faced the Ethiopians in the capital. The gun battle lasted for several minutes.
The supporters of the ousted Islamists are still active in some villages alongside the inustrial road in Mogadishu where both Ethiopian and Somali soldiers have gone under attacks a handful of times. |