P&O Ports official killed in Somalia in terrorist attack

A gunman shot dead the head of Dubai government-owned P&O Ports' operations in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland on Monday, a local government official said, an Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.

Yusuf Mohamed, governor of Puntland's Bari region told Reuters that two men disguised as fishermen had shot Paul Anthony Formosa as he was going to Bosaso port this morning. Al Shabaab said it had carried out the attack and accused Formosa of being in Somalia illegally. "We are behind the operation ... we had warned him but he turned a deaf ear. He was illegally in Somalia," said a spokesman for Al Shabaab's military operations, Abdiasis Abu Musab.

(With inputs from agencies.)