Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group on Tuesday overran a military base in the southern Jubbaland region that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali officer and a local resident said.
He said al Shabaab had cut communications in the area and that the army had sent reinforcements.
Halima Osman said her husband, who survived the attack and managed to get out of the base, had called her with a colleague's phone. Al Shabaab confirmed it was behind the attack. "We control the base. We took all their weapons," it said in a statement.
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