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 Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org)-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following three armed vehicles of the government forces have entered in Hodan army base where they have previously withdrawn later than deadly fighting occurred there.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 Shabelle English service.
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.
Source: Shabelle Media Network
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