The initial report indicates that the officer was attacked by a man disguising as a fisherman who was later killed by his security guards, according to police.
Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Puntland administration has not yet commented on the attack.
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...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...
state. P&O Ports acknowledged that one of its employees was killed and three others injured in an "incident" Monday at its operations in Bosaso Port.
P&O Ports signed a 30-year, $336 million deal in 2017 to develop the Bosaso Port.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
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an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...krazed killer group has taken claim for the attack.
"We are behind the operation ... we had warned him but he turned a deaf ear. He was illegally in Somalia," said front man for al-Shabaab's military operations, Abdiasis Abu Musab.
P&O Ports has sparked friction with Mogadishu over its development of ports in Berbera in breakaway Somaliland ‐ whose independence is not recognized ‐ as well as Puntaland.
Many of Somalia's federal states have aligned with the United Arab Emirates, while the central government is perceived as pro-Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., in the Gulf crisis pitting Arab powers against each other.
Puntland is a region of northeast Somalia on the Gulf of Aden.