The Somali National News Agency (SONNA) said the joint forces foiled an attack from al-Shabab at a military base at Bar-Sanguni neighborhood near Kismayo town in Jubbland. The news agency said international partners conducted airstrikes in the area that targeted al-Shabab militants. Independent sources said that there were heavy casualties on both the army and the militants. Residents reported hearing airstrikes targeting the militant group early Saturday. They said several strikes hit the militants and their battlewagons in an area between Araare and Muse Haji. The attack came hours after the group said on Friday that their fighters killed 57 Ethiopian troops under the framework of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in an ambush near Burhakaba town in southern Somalia.