A Maltese port manager has been shot dead in Somalia’s northern semi-autonomous Puntland state, officials say.
Paul Anthony Formosa, who was the construction project manager for DP World, was killed inside Bossasso port.
Islamist militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.
Puntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in 1998, in part to avoid the clan warfare in southern Somalia. Read more