The newest assault comes inside days of a suicide bombing by al-Shabab close to a navy base within the capital, Mogadishu.
Suspected al-Shabab fighters attacked a Somali navy base within the central Galgaduud area on Monday, the defence ministry has stated, days after the world was captured by authorities forces.
The military repulsed the assault on the bottom housing nationwide and native troops in Qayib, a village captured from al-Shabab final week, defence ministry spokesman Abdullahi Ali Anod advised the state-run information company SONNA.
The assault started with two suicide automobile bombs at about 5am native time (02:00 GMT), adopted by hours of heavy combating, Ahmed Hassan, a navy officer within the close by city of Bahdo, advised Reuters information company.
It was not instantly clear how many individuals had been killed within the raid, Hassan stated.
In a press release, al-Shabab spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab stated the group launched the assault in Qayib utilizing suicide automobile bombs earlier than its fighters attacked from completely different instructions. The fighters killed a number of troopers and stole weapons and navy automobiles, Abu Musab stated.
Authorities forces, supported by clan militias, have made plenty of battlefield beneficial properties in opposition to al-Shabab within the final three months, regaining territory lengthy held by the group.
In response, al-Shabab killed no less than 100 folks in twin automobile bombings on the schooling ministry within the capital, Mogadishu, on October 29, the deadliest blasts in 5 years.
A suicide bomber additionally killed no less than 5 folks and wounded 11 others in an incident close to a navy coaching camp in Mogadishu on Saturday.
Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-allied armed group combating in Somalia for greater than a decade, is looking for to topple the nation’s central authorities and set up its personal rule primarily based on a strict interpretation of Islamic legislation.
Its fighters have been pushed out of Mogadishu in 2011 by the African Union peacekeeping forces. Nevertheless it nonetheless controls swaths of Somalia’s countryside and has stepped up assaults since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took workplace in Could and pledged an “all-out conflict” in opposition to the group.