SOMALIA: Seven die in Mogadishu battles between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents

Record ID: 375219

  • Title: SOMALIA: Seven die in Mogadishu battles between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents
  • Date: 19th April 2007
  • Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (APRIL 17, 2007)(REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FIGHTING AT NIGHT WITH SOUND OF GUNFIRE AND SHELLS LANDING BLACK SMOKE FROM AREA OF FIGHTING
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Somalia
  • Country: Somalia
  • Reuters ID: LVA355LR3U0568WCSOAD60BE1HH
  • Story Text: At least seven people were killed and dozens injured when violence between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents erupted overnight in Somalia's war-torn capital, residents said on Wednesday (April 18).
    Heavy shelling rocked the southern region of the seaside capital during the night and mortar shells landed close to the presidential palace.
    A spokesman for the city's dominant Hawiye clan said a ceasefire between the insurgents and Ethiopian troops helping the transitional government control the anarchic city was still in place.
    The insurgents are drawn from the Hawiye and the Islamist movement, formerly known as the Somalia Council of Islamic Courts.
    Ethiopian and Somali troops defeated the Islamist movement, which had Hawiye backing and ruled southern Somalia for the last half of 2006, in a brief war over the New Year.
    A mortar shell fell through the roof of the Baar Ubax bakery that supplies most of the bread in the city while staff were busy working, but no one was injured.
    Others hit buildings closer to where the fighting was taking place.
    The transitional government is the 14th attempt at establishing central rule since warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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