Thursday, March 29, 2007
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| Smoke rises in the horizon above the Towfiq neighborhood in Mogadishu. Ethiopian helicopters have fired missiles on southern Mogadishu as heavy fighting across the Somali capital left 10 people dead in an offensive against insurgent fighters.(AFP/Mustafa Abdi) |
Dozens of men and women pulled the bodies of two soldiers in the street, shouting "We will kill the Ethiopian troops", while five other bodies in Ethiopian uniforms lay on the ground in the southern district of Shirkole.
Nearby an Ethiopian military vehicle burned in the street.
Loudspeakers had earlier transmitted calls for residents to come out and fight the Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's transitional government.
Meanwhile an AFP correspondent reported that a plane left Mogadishu airport carrying around a dozen wounded Ethiopian soldiers. The same plane had brought in around 60 soldiers on Thursday morning, he said.
Ethiopian helicopters earlier fired missiles on mainly southern Mogadishu as heavy fighting across the Somali capital left 15 people dead in an offensive against insurgent fighters.
The Ethiopians spearheaded the offensive, deploying tanks in neighbourhoods that have witnessed the most intense insurgent activity in recent months.
Source: AFP, Mar 29, 2007