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KENYAN warplanes bombed camps of the radical Islamist terror group al-Shabab in Somalia yesterday.
Colonel David Obonyo said air strikes had taken place in the Gedo area, destroying two camps.
The bombing raids mark an escalation of Kenya’s war on al-Shabab, which has claimed responsibility for the massacre of 148 people last Thursday at a university campus in the Kenyan city of Garissa.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his country would respond “in the severest way possible” to the outrage, which saw four gunmen break into the campus and go from room to room shooting students who were revising for their exams.
But Col Obonyo said yesterday’s air strikes were “part of continuing operations, not just in response to Garissa.”
Kenyan troops are part of an African Union force fighting al-Shabab, a branch of al-Qaida, in Somalia. The extremist group said last week’s atrocity was a revenge attack.
