Today, Tuesday, the Mujahideen Youth Movement launched a suicide car bomb attack on a military center of the Transitional African Union Mission (ATMs) in southern Somalia, leaving 5 people dead on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, according to a security source.
The security source - who asked not to be named - told Anadolu Agency that a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber targeted a military center of the African mission in the town of El Barf in the Middle Shabelle region in the south of the country.
He explained that the attack began with a suicide operation targeting the military center, followed by violent confrontations between Al-Shabab fighters and African forces.
He added that according to preliminary information, the attack killed 5 people, including two civilians, while Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack through a statement published on the Somali website "Memo" affiliated with it.
The movement said that after an attack that began with a martyrdom operation, our fighters managed to take control of the military center and kill about 59 African forces.
As of 0700 GMT, the ATMS mission had not issued a statement regarding the attack.
Somalia has been waging a war for years against the Mujahideen Youth Movement, an armed movement founded in early 2004, ideologically affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and it has adopted numerous terrorist operations that have claimed hundreds of lives.