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Shaboobs attack village in northeast Kenya | |
2015-05-23 | |
NAIROBI -- Militants from Somalia-based al Shabaab attacked a village in northeast Kenya but were beaten back by security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
"Security forces swiftly mobilized and engaged the A police source in the area who did not wish to be named said the militants roamed Yumbis for an hour in two trucks bearing Kenyan registration plates. They hoisted their black flag on a mosque where they held prayers, before heading towards the nearby village of Damajale. A combined force of police and the army drove them off, the source said. Al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters were still in the village and had repulsed Kenyan security personnel. "We fully control Yumbis village. Kenyan forces tried to attack the village but we drove them back," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, told Reuters. A senior government official reiterated that al Shabaab fighters had left the village. "We have dispatched a team of security officers on the ground tracking down the attackers ... The area is calm and peaceful " a senior Garrissa county government official, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters by phone. | |
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