15 Somalis dead as Islamist attacks spark fighting

A medical worker says the heaviest fighting in months has killed at least 15 civilians in Somalia`s capital.

Mogadishu: A medical worker says the
heaviest fighting in months has killed at least 15 civilians
in Somalia`s capital.

Ali Muse says women and children were among the dead
and that more than 30 people were wounded. Muse heads the
ambulance service in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
A spokesman for the Islamic insurgency says the
fighting started when the Islamists attacked government bases
and African Union peacekeeping troops around the city.

Sheik Ali Mohamoud Rage says the attack early Friday
was a response to a plan by peacekeepers and the government to
wrest back control of the battered seaside capital.
Somali police spokesman Col Abdullahi Hassan Barise
says Somali forces beat back the insurgents.

PTI

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