Terrorism: Kenyan Air Strikes ‘Destroy’ Two Al-Shabab Camps In Somalia

The Kenyan air force has said it destroyed two al-Shabab
camps in Somalia, in the first major military response since
the armed group massacred students at a Kenyan
university last week.
Gunmen from the al-Qaeda-aligned group killed 148 people
on Thursday when they stormed the Garissa University
College campus, some 200km from the Somali border.
Jets pounded the camps in the Gedo region on the other
side of the frontier on Sunday and Monday, Kenya Defence
Forces spokesman David Obonyo said on Monday. The
mission was part of efforts to stop fighters from those
camps carrying out cross-border raids into Kenya.
“Our aerial images show that the camps were completely
destroyed,” he said, adding that cloud cover made it
difficult to estimate the death toll.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab’s military operations
spokesman, told the Reuters news agency that none of its
camps were damaged in Sunday’s raid, and that the fighter
jets had instead struck farmland.
After besieging the university, the al-Shabab gunmen lined
up non-Muslim students before executing them in the
armed group’s bloodiest attack to date.
The attack claimed the lives of 142 students, three police
officers and three soldiers.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday pledged that the
attackers would face justice for the “mindless slaughter”
and vowed to retaliate for the killings in the “severest
way.”