Al Shabaab fighters also repelled a counter attack by Djibouti troops deployed from another base in the area, he said. He said "several" al Shabaab fighters died. In the past, casualty figures cited by al Shabaab have been much higher than official numbers. Amisom forces killed 110 al Shabaab and captured a large cache of weapons," Lieutenant Colonel Joe Kibet told Reuters by telephone, adding that a claim by al Shabaab that it had killed 60 AU soldiers was a "falsehood". The African Union AMISOM force fighting in Somalia said on Thursday its troops repelled an attack on one of its bases by the al Shabaab Islamist group and killed 110 militants.

Source: The Star June 09, 2016 08:48 UTC