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Somalia: Two insurgents among 6 killed in fresh clashes in Mogadishu Thu. July 17, 2008 09:42 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) Witnesses and insurgent spokesman said Thursday six people including two insurgent fighters died and more than nine others were wounded in heavy fighting that broke out between insurgents and Somali government forces and Ethiopian troops in northwest of Mogadishu. Witnesses told Xinhua that four civilians died after shells landed in their homes in Yaqshid and Huruwaa districts in the northwest of Mogadishu while four others were wounded. In a separate incident, two other civilians were wounded by stray bullets from the clashes in other districts in the south of the restive Somali capital Mogadishu. Abdirahim Isse Addow, spokesman for the Islamic Courts Union fighters, said that his group carried out the attacks which began after insurgents launched concerted attacks on a number of Ethiopian and Somali government army bases. He said two of the Islamist fighters were killed and three others were wounded in the fighting which last for more than two hours. Heavy artillery, mortars, rocket propelled grenades, and heavy machine guns were used in the attack. Addow claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the Ethiopian and Somali government forces, a claim that cannot be independently verified. Somali government officials and Ethiopian military commanders have yet to comment on the latest fighting which is still sporadically continuing. Insurgents have been waging near daily attacks on Somali and Ethiopian troops since early 2007 shortly after the ouster of an Islamist administration that had been in control in large swathes of land in the south and center of the war-torn Horn of African country. Somalia has been without a strong central government since the overthrow of the late Somali leader Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1991. –Xinhua News Category: Somalia Latest Headlines Latest News PRESS RELEASE: Amnesty International speaks on displ... Somalia: Pirates attack six more ships off of Somal... Uganda: ICC renews calls for arrest of LRA chie... Somalia: Aid agencies welcome in central Somalia- I... U.S Elections: Obama widens leading margins over McCa... Zimbabwe: Opposition, ruling party fail to meet ZAMBIA: NO TRAVEL ALERTS FOLLOWING DEADLY DIESEASE Somalia: Over 50 aid agencies criticize humanitari... We'll fight to death before surrendering to U.S., R... Somalia: ‘Bomb’ injures Italian UN official in Soma... More News...