Pirates attacked a Spanish fishing vessel but private security guards aboard the ship drove them off with gunfire. Puntland Marines have joined the pirates, said Puntland former president Ade Muse Hershe. The top leader of Shabaab, Sheikh Mukhtar Abdirahman Abu Zubeyr, vowed more fighting against Somali government and AMISOM troops. Two clerics were killed by masked gunmen in Beledweyn.
