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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Rival Somali militias pounded each other with heavy artillery and mortar fire Saturday as the death toll rose to 142 in seven days of fighting for control of a northern neighborhood in the capital.
Hundreds of people fled their homes in southern Mogadishu after secular militias warned their battle with radical Islamic fighters could spread to areas not yet hit by the latest round of fighting, Jamiilo Isaq Roble said as she left with her three children.
At least seven people were killed and 14 wounded early Saturday in sporadic fighting between the Islamic Court Union and the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism in the now-deserted Sii-Sii neighborhood of northern Mogadishu.
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