Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amison) on patrol in Kismayo on October 12, 2013. Photo/AFP
By AFP
In Summary
- The raid on Thursday evening targeted the rebels camp in Garbarahey in Gedo region, situated around 600 kilometres northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu and near the border with Kenya and Ethiopia, the Kenyan military said.
Kenya said Friday it had killed at least 30 Al Shabaab rebels including top commanders in an air strike on a training camp in Somalia.
The raid on Thursday evening targeted the rebels
camp in Garbarahey in Gedo region, situated around 600 kilometres
northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu and near the border with Kenya
and Ethiopia, the Kenyan military said.
"KDF (Kenya Defence Force) fighter jets attacked
an Al Shabaab camp, where a meeting was being held," a senior KDF
official said.
"Initial battle damage assessment indicates more
than 30 Al Shabaab militants killed, including key commanders," the
official added.
Another military official said the Kenyan armed forces were trying to determine the identities of those killed in the raid.
"We are yet to establish their identities, but
they are definitely big shots in the militant group's hierarchy," the
official said, adding that five vehicles and other "key assets" were
destroyed in the raid.
Officials said they believed dozens of other militants were also wounded.
Kenya has been battling the Al-Qaeda-inspired Al
Shabaab on Somali soil since October 2011, and has since joined the
African Union force deployed in the country.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to maintain
Kenya's military presence in the war-torn country despite Al Shabaab
attacks inside Kenya -- including the attack on the Westgate shopping
mall in September last year.
"Let them (Al Shabaab) know that we will not relent on the war," Kenyatta said late last year.
"Our forces will remain in Somalia until such time when we are satisfied that there is peace."
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