More than 60 people have reportedly been killed in Somalia after heavily armed al-Shabaab fighters stormed a military base in the country’s semiautonomous state of Puntland, local media reports said.
The al-Shabaab claimed that they had seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition in the assault.
A local security official said that the militants had also suffered heavy casualties and lost many of their fighters.
However, exact death toll in the reported assault is not yet available.