Heavy fighting erupts in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, March 6 (Reuters) Heavy fighting erupted in Mogadishu after about 100 insurgents attacked Somali interim government troops and their Ethiopian allies at a base inside the former defence headquarters today, a witness said.

''They are fighting with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machineguns,'' said a local reporter who declined to be named. The reporter, who was trapped by the gunfire at a nearby hospital, said she had seen at least one body.

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