Somalia: Fighting claims 4 lives in capital Mogadishu

(SomaliNet) Intense fighting between Somalia’s Abyssinian government soldiers and their archrivals the insurgents has on Wednesday morning commenced at Hiliwa district in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

According to witnesses, the combat started after the Islamists have attacked Haila Barise edifice which is currently an Ethiopian military base.

The witnesses say the warring sides have exchanged different kinds of weaponries including mortars, rocket propel grenades, and both heavy and light machineguns.

“In the first instant I heard the sounds of sequence of mortars, and then followed by what seemed to be face-to-face crossfire shortly after a mortar which seemed to fired from the Ethiopian military base hit in to my neighbors house and killed 4 of the family members and wounding to others” said Khlaif a resident in the area speaking to Somaliweyn radio.

The Ethiopian troops arrived in Somalia militarily backing the flimsy government of Somalia.

It was the Ethiopian troop that has uprooted the Islamic Courts Union which was in control of south and central Somalia for 6 goods months.

There is immense enmity between Somalia and Ethiopia, and this came after deadly battle occurred between the two countries which are geographically neighbors in early 1977, in the battle the Somali government soldiers were almost to conquer the capital Addis Ababa, but Ethiopia was salvaged by the USSR. –Somaliweyn