Mogadishu street fighting kills 75, injures 100

Rival militia battled with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and assault rifles for control of part of the Somali capital Mogadishu for a third straight day. Fighting has killed at least 75 people and wounded more than 100, according to medical workers.

Radical Islamic militiamen will observe a cease-fire from late yesterday in response to pleas from civilians hit by the violence and members of civil society organisations, Islamic Court Union chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said.