Two AU soldiers die in base attack

A spokesperson for the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia has said that two soldiers have died in an attack on its base in Beledweyne. Civilians are also believed to have died when a truck laden with explosives rammed into the camp. An eyewitness told the BBC that he saw the body of dead woman. […]

A spokesperson for the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia has said that two soldiers have died in an attack on its base in Beledweyne.
Civilians are also believed to have died when a truck laden with explosives rammed into the camp. An eyewitness told the BBC that he saw the body of dead woman. The military base belongs to the Djiboutian forces who are operating mainly in central Somalia.
The group, which once ruled much of Somalia, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and drive out African AMISOM peacekeepers made up of soldiers from Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Ethiopia and other African nations.
Al Shabaab spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab said the group was behind a truck bomb that rammed into an AMISOM base in the Somali town of Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu. He said 17 soldiers from Djibouti were killed.