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Officials in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in Somalia tell VOA that Puntland security forces have killed two members of a militant Somali Islamic youth group called the Shabbab and arrested six others, following a day-long standoff with the police in the port city of Bossasso. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi reports several of the men arrested today are believed to have links to terrorist suspects targeted by the U.S. in Puntland in June. Full Story