The Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for
killing dozens of KDF troops after they attacked a remote military base
in Somalia on Thursday, January 26, 2017. According to a spokesman for
al-Shabaab, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, he said its fighters killed at
least 57 Kenyans and took over the base in the southern town of
Kulbiyow, near the Kenyan border.
'We are pursuing the Kenyan soldiers who ran away into the woods. Two
mujahideen (fighters) rammed suicide car bombs into the base in Kulbiyow
town before storming it,' he said, adding that alongside counting 57
Kenyan bodies the group seized vehicles and weapons.
'We have taken over the base.
Speaking to Reuters, Kenyan military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Paul
Njuguna denied the claims saying: 'That is false, the operation is
ongoing. We are receiving updates.'
It could also be recalled that in January 2016, al Shabaab said it had
killed more than 100 Kenyan soldiers in El Adde, a Somali camp near the
border with Kenya. The Kenyan military never gave details of casualties.
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