Fighting flares in Somali capital: 60 dead
Reuters, Mogadishu
New fighting erupted yesterday between Somali fighters loyal to defeated warlords and the country's Islamists militias, and the death toll tripled to at least 60 since Sunday, a hospital official said. "I am sure that more than 60 have died so far," Abdikadir Sheikh, a medical official at Mogadishu's Madina Hospital, told Reuters by phone as artillery and gunfire crackled behind him. Residents of Mogadishu's Kilometre Five area said the death toll had risen by at least 40 and nearly 100 had been wounded since Sunday's heavy street battles broke out at dawn in the neighboring Kilometre Four area.
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