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Somalia:Brief Fighting between the government forces and armed
Anti-Gov and Ethiopian troops’ fighters
The fighting between the government forces
armed Anti-Gov and Ethiopian troops’ fighters has happened in Hodan
district on Monday-residents said.
The battle started following three armed vehicles of the
government forces have entered in Hodan army base where they have
previously withdrawn later than deadly fighting occurred there.
Three TFG soldiers were confirmed killed in the clash which
lasted further minutes.
The skirmishing has also broadened in new locations including
KM4, and former Digfer sanatorium furthermore some reports say that
the government soldiers have been recoiled from those areas.
“I could see three dead bodies of the TFG soldiers lying near
Hodan army base” one eyewitness told us
The two sides have used in the fighting an assortment of weapons
along with armed groups have seized Hodan army base.
More thirty people wounded in that fighting.
The latest violence took place as Prime Minister Nur Hassan
Hussein has met with opposition clan elders to discuss his plans
for reconciliation.
The Somali government and its Ethiopian allies have been
battling an Islamist fighters for more than a year.
The fighting has killed thousands of people in Mogadishu alone
and forced at least a half-million others to flee the city.
The armed battles began after a joint Somali-Ethiopian offensive
drove a militant Islamist movement from power in southern Somalia
in late 2006.
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