Six Ethiopians killed at Baletweyn in Somalia

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:26:44 GMT
At least six Ethiopians have been killed and 23 others injured in a new series of clashes in the southern part Mogadishu. One Ethiopian officer was killed in front of the Ethiopian base of Ifka Halane in the capital, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. More than eight guards of the dead officer were also injured in the fighting. In another incident, five Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the town of Baletweyn and 15 others injured on Thursday.
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. Fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents has killed thousands of Somalis and displaced more than a million others. The country is considered as the most dangerous war envrionment on the African continent. AGB/HAR, original source at PressTV,