AT least 13 people including two children were killed and more than 30 wounded on Monday in heavy fighting in Mogadishu, witnesses said. More than 40 people have been killed since Thursday in almost daily battles between a shifting array of warlords and businessmen backed by heavily armed militiamen. Witnesses said Monday’s conflict, now in its second day, began when a convoy of food aid was ambushed at the strategic KM-7 junction by militia loyal to warlord Ali Hassan Osman. The boom of anti-aircraft guns fired horizontally, anti-tank weapons and rocket propelled grenades could be heard throughout the capital alongside the chatter of heavy machine guns and the crack of assault rifles, they said. Among the dead were six civilians, including two children, who were killed by a stray round from an anti-aircraft gun, witnesses said. – Reuters