Five people were killed and over a dozen injured on Monday in fighting between rival factions in the Somali town of Baidoa, 240 km northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, local sources told IRIN. The fighting between rival factions of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which controls much of Bay and Bakol regions in southwestern Somalia, erupted "at around 4:00 a.m. [local time] this morning [Monday]," a local journalist said.