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Somalia: 5 kids among those killed in Mogadishu fighting Tue. July 22, 2008 01:44 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) Five children between the ages of 6 and 13 were among those killed amidst clashes between Islamic rebels and government soldiers in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a report said Monday. Witnesses said the children, pupils at a Koran school, were reported to have been trying to flee as rebels attacked an Ethiopian military base on Sunday evening. Meanwhile, two youths were killed in a separate incident when a grenade exploded on a football field where the teenagers were playing. The Somali rebels killed nine soldiers and wounded several more, a spokesman for the radical Islamist Al-Shabab Militia said Monday. Meanwhile in the central Somalia, rebels also attacked a convoy of army recruits on their way to Mogadishu. According to an army spokesman, 12 rebels were killed in the clash, including an Iraqi and a Pakistani. Islamic rebels have been waging a guerilla war against the Somali transitional government and its Ethiopian allies since the overthrow in early 2007 of a government led by the Union of Islamic Courts. -DPA News Category: Somalia Latest Headlines Latest News Nigeria: Militants say know whereabouts of kidnappe... Somalia: President Yusuf urges MPs to work togethe... Somalia: Two civilians killed as Islamist rebels at... Somalia: Somali pirates release Filipino crew held ... India: Army evacuates over 120,000 amidst flood scare... US plans to divert some marines from Iraq to Afghani... Zimbabwe: President Mugabe ready to form a new gov’t... Somalia: Muslim nations urged to step up aid to war... Sri Lanka: 36 rebels killed as gov’t troops, rebels c... Ethiopia: President Meles considers withdrawing... More News...