At least 140 killed in Mogadishu battle

At least 140 people were killed in two days of fighting in the Somali capital.

At least 140 people were killed in two days of fighting in the Somali capital which ended after one of the city's last holdout warlords surrendered to Islamist militias, a hospital official said on Tuesday.

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"Approximately 140 people have died and 150 others were injured. It was a very heavy exchange with most of the people dying outside of hospital," Ali Moallim, a senior administrator at Mogadishu's Madina hospital, told the agency.