Awdigli - Fighters from the Al-Shabaab movement linked to Al-Qaeda attacked at dawn today a Somali army military base in the town of Awdigli in the Lower Shabelle region of southwestern Somalia.
Somali government forces reportedly resisted the fighters who began their attack by detonating a car bomb that targeted a security checkpoint for the forces in the town, which is about 85 kilometers from the capital, Mogadishu.
Security sources said that Al-Shabaab militants tried to seize the town of Odigli, but they faced stiff resistance from Somali forces, forcing them to retreat.
It is not yet known the size of the losses resulting from the attack, while no official comment was issued by the Somali federal government on what happened.
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