Somalia: Five inmates, three guards killed in Mogadishu prison break shootout

Mogadishu (AFP) – Five inmates said to be from Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist group and three guards were killed in a blaze of gunfire during an attempted breakout from the main prison in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, prison authorities and witnesses said.

Jailed members of the Al-Qaeda-linked group, which has been waging a bloody insurgency for year…