Al Shabaab militants said their military base on the coast of Somalia was attacked in a predawn strike on Friday, BBC News reported.
The violence comes just one day after the death of a Muslim cleric caused riots in Mogadishu, just 150 miles north of the coast town.
Islamist fighters from the terrorist group told BBC that "white soldiers" approached their base by boat at the port of Barawe. Reuters reported that Al Shabaab said Turkish and British forces carried out the attack.
The militants also said they killed the commander of the British soldiers, wounded four others, and injured one Turkish soldier.
Local residents said the sound of gunfire woke up them up in the middle of the night.
"Gunfire broke out for about 10-15 minutes," one witness said.
Other witnesses said they saw militants invade a house where leaders of Al Shabaab lived.
Despite the attack on their base, Al Shabaab leader Mohamed Abu Suleiman said the raid was a failure and that the terrorist group is still in complete control.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and it is not known if the assault on their base is related to the Westgate Mall assault in Kenya, which Al Shabaab admitted to carrying out.
In the past years, U.S. and French forces have attacked parts of Somalia to combat piracy. The U.S. government has also dropped drones in the country in support of the Somali government and African Union soldiers in their fight against Al Shabaab.
In 2009, the U.S. Navy killed an Al Qaeda leader -- Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan-- in a raid on Barawe in broad daylight.
French forces were not so lucky when they attempted to free an intelligence official in January. During their raid, two French soldiers were killed while trying to save the official, who Al Shabaab later said they killed.
