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Four days after al-Shabab militants massacred the Garrisa university campus, Kenya, on Monday, bombed locations of the Somalia-based Islamic militant group, the nation claimed. Its air force destroyed two al-Shabab camps in Somalia, in the country’s initial response to the recent attacks carried by the militant group, killing 148 and injuring several others.
These bombings on the targets of the militant group came two days after the Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta had promised to respond to the attack in the “severest way possible”. The Kenya Defence Forces Spokesperson David Obonyo said that jets targeted locations of the militant group in Gedo region, destroying two camps, though the cloud cover made it difficult to estimate the death toll.
He further informed, the mission was part of efforts to stop al Shabaab fighters from those camps carrying out cross-border raids into Kenya, as quoted by the Reuters.
However, the militant group refused to accept the destruction of their camps in the airstrike, and claimed instead, Reuters reported, that the airstrike struck a farmland. A spokesperson of the militant group told the news agency that Kenya had not targeted any of their bases.
Four militants of al-Shabab militant group had created a havoc at the Garrisa University on Thursday, as they barged in the campus, killing two guards posted on the gate and open firing on the students. More females were believed to be attacked as the militants targeted their hostel. 148 students were killed while 500 survived the attacked, including those who managed to escape the premises while the shooting went on.
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