According to witnesses who spoke with Shabelle Media station said the festivities erupted after some soldiers tried to release two other soldiers who were held in the prison by Somali government.
The soldiers also used grenades in their attack and gunfire that lasted for several minutes ensued between the two sides, killing a prisoner and wounding ten other inmates who have been taken to local hospitals in the capital.
Officials from Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
told a rebel-run radio station that a group of their armed forces have on Friday afternoon stormed into Mogadishu central prison and handled to release dozen inmates who were incarcerated illegally, as he put it.
On the other hand, Abdi Mohammed Ismail, TFG Police Custodial Corps rebuffed the claims of Al shabab, saying the festivities were engaged between inmates and the guards of the prison.