(PressTV) – North Mogadishu is the scene of heavy fighting after an attack on an Ethiopian Woyanne military convoy killed three soldiers and injured nine.
The fighting broke out between Pasta and Heyle Barrise bases on Friday, after insurgents waiting in ambush targeted a group of Ethiopian Woyanne troops with bazookas and automatic weapons.
The two sides engaged in a mortar and artillery fire exchange afterwards, which destroyed civilian positions in the north of the Somali capital, Press TV correspondent in Baidoa reported.
The number of casualties or scope of destructions could not be immediately estimated due to the heavy fire.
Heavy clashes have been also reported in Hodon district in southern Mogadishu.
Conflict between insurgents and Ethiopian Woyanne-backed government forces in Somalia killed 6,501 civilians in the capital Mogadishu in 2007 and wounded 8,516 more, according a local human rights group.