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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's president said Saturday he regretted the heavy fighting that killed more than 1,000 people in the capital in the past month, as residents began collecting rotting bodies from the streets to prepare for burial.
Mogadishu was calm for a second day after nine days of warfare between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian and Somali government troops during which they attacked each other with mortars, heavy artillery, grenades and machine-gun fire.
Somali and Ethiopian troops have been trying to crush the insurgents since late March. Since February, up to 400,000 people have fled the city.
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