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 MOGADHISU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militiamen and rival secular fighters traded machine-gun, rocket and mortar fire in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least eight and wounding a dozen as residents fled on foot or in hired minivans.
But the fighting was lighter one day after hundreds of residents fled some of the fiercest battles in Mogadishu in 14 years.
The violence Saturday — which hospital worker Ali Bile said killed at least eight and wounded at least 12 — stopped in southern Mogadishu after several hours. Sporadic gunfire continued in the northern part of the city.
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