MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali rebels seized two more towns on Monday and corpses lay outside a Mogadishu mosque as the death-toll from battles between Islamist-led insurgents and allied Ethiopian-Somali troops rose to at least 85.
After mortars and machine-gun fire rocked the capital over the weekend in the worst fighting for months, Islamist fighters seized the southern coastal town of Guda, killing four Somali soldiers and wounding at least seven more, locals said.
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