Fighters of the al Shabaab group attack a military base with a suicide car bomb in the south of Somalia, killing 27 soldiers, the group says, a blast heard by residents of a nearby town.

A suicide bomber in police uniform blows himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, killing at least 13 police officers.

Gunmen posing as military forces were holding an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness say, while the extremist group al-Shabab claims responsibility.