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Al Jazeera English - Africa - Several dead in fresh Somalia clash

Al Jazeera English - Africa - Several dead in fresh Somalia clash: "At least 14 people have been killed in fresh fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, between government forces and fighters.

Dozens more were wounded as government forces intensified efforts to drive out fighters who have pledged to topple the interim government of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Somali president.

At least five of those killed in what was described as intense fighting in the city's Jamhuriya area were civilians, witnesses said.

'I saw the dead bodies of five civilians, one of them a woman,' Mohamed Bashir, a resident of the city's Jamhuriya district told the AFP news agency.

'Three of the victims died when a mortar shell struck their house.'"

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