Al Shabaab said it killed more than 100 soldiers but Kenya gave no exact casualty figure. "Our fighters stormed the Halgan base of AMISOM," al Shabaab's military operations spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters. He said the group used a suicide car bomb and then militants had exchanged fire with Ethiopian troops there. In January, Kenyan troops serving with AMISOM suffered heavy losses when al Shabaab made a dawn raid on their camp in El Adde, near the Kenyan border. The base at Halgan town lies in a region of central Somalia about 300 km (185 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu.

Source: Standard Digital June 09, 2016 05:48 UTC