Ten members of the Somalian al-Shabab militant group have been killed by Kenyan security forces in eastern Kenya, according to official reports.
After fighting the gang on Wednesday in the village of Galmagalla in Garissa county, they also found improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades, according to Thomas Bett, deputy county commissioner of the Bura East sub-county.
“The operation to flush out the Somalia militants’ group in the region was carried out by our multi-agency team, … and [it] managed to neutralise 10 Islamist group militants and recovered assault weapons,” he told the Reuters new agency.
Kenya has suffered attacks for a decade as retribution for joining the peacekeeping force fighting al-Shabab in Somalia.
Al-Shabab has targeted security forces, schools, vehicles, towns and telecommunications infrastructure in eastern Kenya although the frequency and intensity of their attacks have declined in recent years.
A 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, killed 67 people.
For more than a decade, Al-Shabab has been fighting to destabilize Somalia’s central government and establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Last week, the gang killed four highway workers in Kenya when their car collided with a roadside bomb in Garissa county. According to authorities, one person was killed on Tuesday when a convoy was attacked by a rocket-propelled grenade in the same area.
Source: Aljazeera News
