EthopiHelicopter shot down as Mogadishu battle ragesan

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents shot down an Ethiopian helicopter gunship in Mogadishu on Friday during a second day of fighting after Ethiopian and Somali forces launched a major attack on Islamists and clan militia.

 

As shells rained down on the city and deafening tank fire shattered homes, witnesses saw two Ethiopian helicopters firing on an insurgent stronghold before one of them was struck by a missile or rocket-propelled grenade.

 

"Smoke billowed from the cabin and it turned toward the ocean," said Swiss journalist Eugen Sorg, who watched from a nearby roof. "It crashed at the south end of airport runway."

 

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Witnesses said black smoke poured into the air and several explosions were heard booming from the crash site.

 

More than 30 people have died since the joint Ethiopian and government troops launched their offensive on Thursday, triggering the lawless capital's worst fighting for months.

 

Terrified locals said there was no let-up in the battles on Friday across the bullet-scarred city on the Indian Ocean coast.

 

"A mortar has just fallen into the house next to me. We can hear crying and can see smoke," Faisal Jamah, a south Mogadishu resident, said by telephone. "We barely slept ... The sky was lit up by shelling all night." Continued...

 

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