Kenyan warplanes strike Shabab camps in Somalia
Kenyan military aircraft have pounded two camps of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia following the recent attack on a university in Kenya that left nearly 150 people dead.
"We bombed two al-Shabab camps in the Gedo region," Kenyan army spokesman, Colonel David Obonyo, said on Monday, adding, "The two targets were hit and taken out, the two camps are destroyed."
The airborne raids come as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged that he would retaliate "in the severest way possible" against al-Shabab militants for their April 2 assault on a university in Kenya's eastern town of Garissa.
The attack claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
A security guard and a Tanzanian were later arrested on campus over the act of terror. Kenyan authorities have offered a $215,000 (200,000 euro) bounty for former Kenyan teacher and purported al-Shabab commander, Mohamed Mohamud, who is believed to have masterminded the attack.
On Saturday, the al-Shabab militant group threatened "another bloodbath" and warned of a "long, gruesome war" unless Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia.
The militants have carried out a string of revenge attacks in Kenya as well as neighboring Uganda over their participation in African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) force.
In September 2013, the Westgate Mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was attacked and around 70 people died in a four-day standoff at the site. Al-Shabab militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly clashes between government forces and al-Shabab militants since 2006.
The militants have been pushed out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the AMISOM, which is largely made up of troops from Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
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