Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group, Al Shabaab, killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital Mogadishu, police and the militants said on Saturday.
“Al Shabaab killed eight of my colleagues and took away three of our cars,” Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters from Afgoi, near the capital.
Al Shabaab, which wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu, claimed responsibility for the raid on Afgoi town, 30 km (19 miles) southwest of Mogadishu.
