Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) At least six people have been killed and more than ten others were wounded on Saturday in Mogadishu when fighting flares up, say witnesses.

The fighting started when Ethiopian troops in advance to Black sea neighborhood came under attack from the insurgents and later the fighting spread into other areas like Bar Ubax, Hamar Jadid and parts of the main industrial street.

The fighting was used with heavy gunfire including artillery shelling, mortars, and hand propelled grenades RPG's" and hand grenades

"Mortars were battered almost every where and I saw civilians including a driver being hit” said Mussa Ali Hersi, a resident in Black Sea neighborhood whose wife was injured by a mortar battered inside their home.

Positions targeted include Simba Radio stations where two mortars that dilapidated damaged the Audio library section of the station.

"It was the time for the day break news at 13:00 local time when two consecutive mortar shells landed the Audio library not far from the news room where reporters and editors were gathered for the upcoming news release of the hour" said Abdulkadir Mohamed Isse"Nune", head of the Audio library section of Radio Simba, FM radio station in Mogadishu.

The fighting , the heaviest seen by residents in capital lasted more than four hours while mortars rained mostly in abandoned residential places in the southern part of Mogadishu.

Today's fighting comes after a day when Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussien in an interview with VOA Somali said that his government is ready to have dialogue with AL-Shabaab Islamic group fighting against Somali government and Ethiopian troops in the capital.

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