Kenyan warplanes strike Shabab camps in Somalia
Iran Press TV
Mon Apr 6, 2015 2:23PM
Kenyan military aircraft have pounded two camps of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia following the recent attack on a university in Kenya that left nearly 150 people dead.
'We bombed two al-Shabab camps in the Gedo region,' Kenyan army spokesman, Colonel David Obonyo, said on Monday, adding, 'The two targets were hit and taken out, the two camps are destroyed.'
The airborne raids come as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged that he would retaliate 'in the severest way possible' against al-Shabab militants for their April 2 assault on a university in Kenya's eastern town of Garissa.
The attack claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
Kenyan military aircraft have pounded two camps of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia following the recent attack on a university in Kenya that left nearly 150 people dead.
'We bombed two al-Shabab camps in the Gedo region,' Kenyan army spokesman, Colonel David Obonyo, said on Monday, adding, 'The two targets were hit and taken out, the two camps are destroyed.'
The airborne raids come as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged that he would retaliate 'in the severest way possible' against al-Shabab militants for their April 2 assault on a university in Kenya's eastern town of Garissa.
The attack claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly clashes between government forces and al-Shabab militants since 2006.
The militants have been pushed out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the AMISOM, which is largely made up of troops from Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
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