MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded outside a military base for Ethiopian soldiers in southern Somalia on Saturday, leaving an unspecified number of casualties, a police official said. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the assault and said it had killed 16 Ethiopian soldiers, although the claim could not be independently verified. A local elder who witnessed the attack told Reuters the explosion had killed 10 people including soldiers and civilians. The group regularly stages attacks against the Somali military and against troops from the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM. Somalia has been gripped by violence since the early 1990s after the toppling of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

Source: Ethiopian News February 02, 2019 12:45 UTC