According to the Washington Post, citing local authorities, a suicide bomber detonated a car at the gates of Baledogle air base and firing began. The dead and injured are not reported.

It is noted that the air base is used to launch drones that attack terrorists in Somalia.

Another occurred in Mogadishu - a suicide bomber exploded in a car next to a convoy of UN peacekeepers from Italy. There were no fatalities in this incident.

Earlier it was reported that at least ten people were victims of a bomb explosion at a checkpoint in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu.