Al-Shabaab kills 20 soldiers in Somalia military base attack
Al-Shabaab militants on Thursday captured the Somalian town of Af-Urur in the semi-autonomous Puntland region and killed 20 soldiers at a military base, officials said and added that they recaptured the town later. However, the al-Qaeda-linked militants claimed that they killed 61 soldiers before leaving the town peacefully. This comes after Puntland sentenced five al-Shabaab militants to death.