MOGADISHU More than 42 people were killed on Friday and Saturday in heavy fighting between government troops and militia opponents battling for control of the port in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said. The fighting, the most intense in the city in months, pitted soldiers of the transitional national government of President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan against fighters of warlord Hussein Aideed. Residents said well over 100 people had been wounded. The 18 hours of violence, which began late on Friday afternoon, subsided shortly after dawn on Saturday with the port and its immediate vicinity under the control of Aideed's militiamen, Reuters quoted the residents as saying.