Al-Shabaab attacks a base of African forces in Bakool province

 
Reports from the city of Wajid in the Bakool region of southwestern Somalia indicated that fighters from the Al-Shabaab movement launched an attack on a base of the Ethiopian forces affiliated with the African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia.

The reports added that the two sides used different types of weapons in confrontations that lasted for about an hour, resulting in undisclosed losses.

The Ethiopian forces, backed by the forces of the state of southwestern Somalia, carried out combing operations in the region after the fighting, and the latest reports indicated that calm had returned to the area that witnessed the fighting and that it was under the control of the allied forces.