Fighting kills at least 13 in Somali capital

MOGADISHU: At least 13 people were killed and scores wounded in the Somali capital on Tuesday as Islamist rebels attacked police and African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the heaviest fighting for weeks. Both sides fired heavy machineguns and artillery, witnesses said, and the insurgents unleashed volleys of mortar bombs at the Villa Somalia presidential palace. “A mother and her baby died after a shell landed on their house,” resident Abdirizak Muhammad said. At least 11 other civilians were killed and workers at the city’s main hospital said about 45 wounded had been admitted. The Islamist group Al Shabaab said it would mount more attacks on the AU troops after killing at least 11 Burundian soldiers on Sunday. reuters

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