Al Shabaab said it killed more than 100 soldiers but Kenya gave no exact casualty figure. He said "several" al Shabaab fighters died, but did not give a number. Al Shabaab fighters also repelled a counter attack by Djibouti troops deployed from another base in the area, he said. "Our fighters stormed the Halgan base of Amisom," al Shabaab's military operations spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters. In the past, casualty figures cited by al Shabaab have been much higher than official numbers.

Source: The Star June 09, 2016 06:56 UTC