A statement issued by the Al-Shabaab media office denied the US Africa Command's claim that a man who was selling weapons to Al-Shabaab was killed in an area of the Sanaag region.

Read the statement in Somali below.

Bayaan uu soo saaray Maktabka warfaafinta ee Xarakada Miujaahidiinta Al-Shabaab ayaa lagu beenayay, hadalkii kasoo yeeray Taliska Mareykanka ee AFRICOM ee ahaa, in nin la hubka usoo iibinjiray Al-Shabaab ay ku dileen degaan katirsan gobollka Sanaag.

Halkaan hoose ka Akhriso bayaanka oo Af-Soomaali ah.