Somalia Suicide Car Bomb Injures Seven Soldiers
A suicide car bomb explosion at a military base in Somalia injured seven soldiers late Saturday. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
Somalia Suicide Car Bomb Injures Seven Soldiers
Al Shabaab fights to topple Somalia’s western-backed central government and impose its a rule based on its own strict interpretation of Islam’s sharia law.
Major Hussein Ali, a Somali military officer told reporters the attack took place at a military base just outside the town of Kismayu in southern Somalia.
“He said they fired (at) the suicide car bomb before it entered the base. It exploded outside the base. Only seven Somali soldiers were injured”.
The assault was on the same base where a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack late on Friday.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack and said they killed 40 Somali soldiers.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, told newsmen that they killed 40 Somali soldiers.
Al Shabaab is also fighting to drive out African union mandated peace keeping force, Amisom.
