(Sh. M. Network)- Unidentified gunnies have shot and killed on Thursday evening two officials in Puntland...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
administration in side Bosaso town, the commercial and coastal city of northern Somalia, witnesses reported.
Reports coming out from the town said that Major Hassan and Ali Bibi he assassinated officials were said to have been rubbed out by masked men armed with pistols. Both officials have been serving for Puntland army.
The attackers who were behind the liquidation of the two soldiers have beat feet from the scene of the crime immediately after the shooting.
Puntland security forces started operations overnight that lasted since on Friday morning, according to locals who spoke with Shabelle Media Network station in Mogadishu by phone. No arrests were so far reported.