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Mon 04 Apr 2007Mogadishu death toll rises in intense shellingSOMALIA:Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu yesterday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that has killed at least 230 people.Illustrating regional divisions, many say are fomenting the escalating war, Eritrea pulled out of the east African group IGAD after a rift with Ethiopia over Somalia. The feuding neighbours each accuse the other of stirring the conflict.