DHAKA: Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab said that it has killed more than 110 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an African Union base in central Somalia.

Residents in Halgan told that they had heard a huge bang followed by a heavy exchange of gunfire, BBC reports on Thursday (June 9).

The AU mission (Amisom) has confirmed the attack but said that the ‘enemy was successfully repulsed’.

Amisom has supported the government as it fights to regain control of the country from al-Shabab.

In a series of tweets it has said its soldiers, alongside troops from the Somali army, ‘drove back the attackers who are now on the run with the joint forces in pursuit’.

BDST: 1540 HRS, June 9, 2016
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