Five inmates said to be from Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist group and a guard were killed in a blaze of gunfire during an attempted breakout from the main prison in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a prison official and witnesses said.
Jailed members of the Al-Qaeda-linked group, which has been waging a bloody insurgency for years, managed to obtain weapons and launched what appeared to be a well-planned bid to escape the prison, security sources said.
