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Africa Horn
KDF Kills 5 Al Shabaab Militants, Recovers Assorted Weapons
2018-01-02
[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenya Defence Forces on Sunday killed five al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
gunnies and recovered assorted weapons in Garissa, near Kenya-Somalia border.

The gunnies had on Friday attacked Ijara cop shoppe and made away with a police Land Cruiser.

They also torched down the cop shoppe.

KDF front man Col. David Obonyo said bomb-making materials that were being ferried in the stolen police Land Cruiser went kaboom! destroying it.

"The troops caught up with the gunnies as they tried to get to the Somalia border. In the ensuing firefight, suspected bomb-making materials that were being ferried went kaboom! destroying the vehicle," Obonyo said.

"However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
a cycle of violence also suspected to have been stolen in Ijara, five AK 47 rifles, 13 magazines with 370 rounds of ammunition, two grenades, bomb-making materials and personal items were recovered."

Posted by:Fred

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