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KDF Destroys Six Shabaab Camps In Lamu’s Boni Forest
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Kenya Defence Forces have destroyed six Shabaab transit camps in the Boni Forest in Lamu County.

"They were camps formed by the holy warriors as they planned to conduct attacks in various parts of Lamu," said Boni Enclave Campaign director Joseph Kanyiri.

He confirmed that security officers also recovered weapons, including AK-47 rifles, grenade-making tools, food and medicine in the camps.

Speaking to the Nation on Monday, Mr Kanyiri said an undisclosed number of Shabaab bandidos gunnies were killed during the ambush and bombing of their hideouts.

Others escaped with bullet wounds, he added.

Mr Kanyiri urged hospitals in Lamu, Tana River, Garissa, Kilifi and Mombasa counties to report to the police anyone seeking treatment for bullet wounds.

He said the operation was successful as it eliminated al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
bandidos gunnies who had set base inside the dense forest.

In September 2015, the national government launched the ’Linda Boni’ operation with the objective of flushing out the al-Shabaab elite group Jaish al-Ayman from Boni Forest.

The militia group was said to have been operating from the forest since 2012 in retaliation to the deployment of Kenyan troops to Somalia to conduct in the Linda Nchi Operation.


Posted by: Fred 2017-11-28
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