27 May, 2017
So far this year, there has been three hijackings, one attempted hijacking - foiled when the crew locked themselves inside a reinforced room - and two vessels fired on off the Somali coast, the London-based International Maritime Bureau said.
Both extremists groups are active in the region.
Daesh officially claimed responsibility for the attack, publishing a statement via its media wing Amaq.
MOGADISHU A bombing claimed by Islamist insurgents killed five civilians and injured six more in the Somali capital on Wednesday, a spokesman for the city's mayor said, underscoring the militants' ability to carry out attacks despite territorial losses.
Five men were killed by an improvised explosive device that hit a convoy of vehicles escorting the governor of Mandera County, Ali Roba. Death toll could rise up due to the serious wounded cases.
Kenya's police chief, Joseph Boinnet, sounded a warning Tuesday about stepped-up al-Shabab attacks in his country as a result of military campaigns in Somalia, where African Union troops are supporting Somali forces. Somali analysts believe that many militants moved from the "Al-Shabab" in the IG.
Police said a suicide bomber on Tuesday detonated at a military checkpoint in the commercial hub of Bossaso, killing at least four people.
Reports from the coastal city of Bosaso in Somalia's autonomous region of Puntland said that huge suicide auto bomb blast were targeted a security forces checkpoint in the city.
In the town of Boosaaso on the shores of the Indian ocean, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police roadblock.