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Guns silent in Mogadishu, hundreds dead

3 avril 2007, 00:00

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Guns were silent in Mogadishu yesterday after four days of battles pitting Ethiopian and Somali troops against insurgents, in which several hundred people are believed to have been killed, witnesses said.

Leaders of the city?s dominant Hawiye clan said they had reached a ceasefire. But previous truces have been broken, and hundreds more Ethiopian troops arrived in the Somali capital over the weekend.

With rotting bodies still lying in the streets yesterday, it was impossible to calculate an exact death toll from what the International Committee of the Red Cross called Mogadishu?s worst fighting in more than 15 years.

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