Shebab militants launched a major suicide
attack on Sunday against a military intelligence
base in the capital Mogadishu setting off a
car bomb before storming inside ,security
official said,
Somalia 's interior ministry said the three
attackers were all killed in the raid and that
Somali security forces,The violent elements
used a car bomb to get inside the compound
There was a heavy exchange of gunfire,"said
Adan Mohamed ,a Somali security official.
Witnesses near the base ,belonging to the
internationally backed government 's National
Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)
reported a loud explosion followed by intense
gunfire,
"There was a heavy explosion and inseconds
gunfire broke out We cannot go outside the
house because of the shooting "said Abdulah
Yare,a resident who lives near the base ,
In a brief statement ,Nisa said the attack
had failed,
"The attack was successfully thwarted by
our forces,None of our buildings nor base
were entered "it said.
Somali officials displayed three corpses
after the attack,which came at the start of
Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan
a period when the AlQaeda -linked Shebab
,who are fighting to topple the Mogadishu
government ,have in the past intensified
attacks. AFP
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