Al-Shabab gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya

The Kenyan air force bombed two al-Shabab camps in Somalia in April in the first major military response to the April 2nd attack by the militant group on a Kenyan university.

Gunmen from the al Qaeda-aligned group killed 148 people on April 2, 2015, when they stormed the Garissa University College campus, some 200 km (120 miles) from the Somali border.

Al-Shabab has now killed more than 400 people on Kenyan soil in the last two years, including 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in a 2013 siege. The latest violence has piled pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop the militants' gun and grenade attacks.

Jets pounded the camps in Gondodowe and Ismail, both in the Gedo region bordering Kenya, the Kenyan Defence Forces source said. Cloud cover made it difficult to establish how much damage the bombings caused or estimate the death toll. (Reuters)


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