MOGADISHU (AFP) – At least 15 people were killed and 23 wounded in fighting between gunmen loyal to warlords controlling Somalia’s capital and Islamic court security militia, in what residents called the fiercest battles in five years.

This brings the death toll to 33 and dozens wounded, according to witnesses and medical sources, since the clashes erupted on Saturday.

The fighting pits gunmen backed by the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) — a coalition of warlords — against Islamic court militia along a road in southern Mogadishu’s Daynile district, they said.
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