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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Artillery fire and mortar shells rained down on Somalia's capital Saturday, killing and wounding untold numbers of civilians as government and Ethiopian troops tried to wipe out Islamist insurgents.
The offensive, which started Thursday, has sparked the heaviest fighting in Mogadishu since the early 1990s. On Friday, insurgents shot down an Ethiopian helicopter gunship and mortar shells slammed into a hospital, leaving corpses piled in the streets and wounding hundreds of people.
"The victims are the civilians, only civilians are dying and getting wounded in this fighting," said Khadijo Farah Warsame, 45, a mother of seven.
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