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Heavy fighting erupts in Somali capital
Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:21:58
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Fifteen people have been killed in heavy fighting in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where angry crowds dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets.
The heavy fighting is going on in the Gupta District as 8 Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the district, the Press TV correspondent reported.
Hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the violence, which is the worst since the Islamic Courts Union was ousted in December.
Scores of people have been killed in Mogadishu in the past two-and-a-half months of insurgency. The Islamic Courts Union says the US and its western allies are to blame for the wave of violence in the impoverished African state.
A group of Burundi troops was scheduled to enter Somalia on Thursday in a bid to quell the violence in the country, which has virtually had no central government since the ouster of the former dictator Mohamed Barre in 1991.
Some 1,200 African Union troops have been deployed to Mogadishu this month to restore security in the city.
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