<span style="color: #222222;">In Somalia, heavy fighting was reported yesterday after al-Shabab militants attacked two towns along the border with Ethiopia. A security official said that al-Shabab first attacked a Liyu Police Camp in Aato town. A local Bakool region official confirmed the al-Shabab then carried out a second attack on Yeed, where militants again entered a Liyu Police Encampment. Militants later attacked Washaaqo village with mortars, possibly to disrupt Liyu Police reinforcements from arriving on the scene. Yeed and Aato are within 80 kilometres of each other while Washaaqo is slightly further inside Somalia. The casualties are not yet known. Telephone networks in the area had been down most of the day.<br />''<br />''Regional officials who confirmed the attack said, militants clashed with Liyu Police, members of Ethiopia's controversial paramilitary forces that have long been present in Somalia's southwestern Bakool region towns of Yeed and Aato.</span><br />