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SOMALIA: The fourth straight day of heavy fighting
left a trail of devastation in the Somali capital on Sunday as
Ugandan peacekeepers reported their first death and clan elders
called for a ceasefire.
Frightened residents fled their
homes with anything they could carry while others were too terrified
to move on streets where Islamist rebels, clan gunmen and Ethiopian
troops exchanged heavy and light weapons fire.
The Ugandan army said one of its
soldiers was killed and five others wounded when mortar shells
pounded the presidential palace Saturday, marking the first death
among African Union peacekeepers deployed here.
Peacekeeper spokesman Captain
Paddy Ankunda said two Ugandan soldiers were seriously wounded and
were flown to Kenya for treatment.
“We are not surprised by what
took place, we expect those people (insurgents) to do more of such
things. We are not in any fear at all,” Ugandan military spokesman
Major Felix Kulayigye told AFP in Kampala.
 --AFP
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