At least 10 people have been killed in a shoot-out between jailed militant Islamists and security officers at a prison in Somalia, government spokesman Ismail Mukhtar has said.
The al-Shabab militants had attempted to escape from the heavily guarded prison in the capital, Mogadishu.
An investigation is under way into how the militants obtained weapons.
Some reports suggested that an inmate managed to disarm a warden and then a group of them raided the armoury.
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