08/08/08 (B460) PRESS TV / Quatre soldats éthopiens ont été tués à Mogadiscio durant un accrochage entre les troupes éthiopiennes et les résistants islamiques / 4 Ethiopian soldiers killed in Mogadishu (En Anglais – Info lectrice)

Four Ethiopian soldiers were killed in heavy clashes with the Union of Islamic Court (UIC) fighters north of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

A Press TV correspondent, reporting from Mogadishu, says the fighting between the Ethiopian troops and the UIC fighters is ongoing in the Industrial Street.

According to an eye-witness at least six mortars landed in the Pasta Base in north Mogadishu killing 4 Ethiopian soldiers and injuring several others.

In a telephone interview with Press TV the UIC spokesman, Abdirahim Isse Addow, confirmed that the UIC has launched two strong attacks on Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers.

Somalia has been without an effective central government since President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991. In 2006, US-backed Ethiopian troops invaded the country in an attempt to back Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

Thousands of civilians have been killed and displaced as a result of the continuous violence in the war-torn country.