Thursday August 15, 2024
by CYRUS OMBATI
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Some of the items that were recovered from terror suspects in Garissa on August 14, 2024- Handout
A Multi-agency team staged a raid on an al-Shabaab makeshift camp in the Digdiga area in Fafi within Garissa County and killed two suspected terrorists.
Several recoveries were made during the operation, including three AK47 rifles and ammunition, grenades, radios, indoctrination literature, AAA batteries, animal snare, and jerrycans among others.
Each of the weapons also had an extra magazine. A total of 120 bullets were recovered in the operation.
Police said the raid was staged on Wednesday morning following complaints from locals over frequent harassment by the militants who were planning an attack targeting security officers across the Sub-County.
According to police, the team trailed the militants deep inside Digdiga Forest.
They ambushed them while they were preparing game meat, and two were gunned down while others fled with serious injuries, police said.
Several recoveries were made during the operation, including AK47 rifles and ammunition, grenades, radios, indoctrination literature, AAA batteries, animal snare, and jerrycans among others.
This is the latest such operation in the area amid fears the terror group plans to attack in the region.
On Monday, August 5, multi-agency teams conducted several raids targeting al-Shabaab positions in Mandera, Wajir and Garissa Counties.
At the borders of Mandera and Wajir counties, an intelligence-led operation was conducted on suspected al Shabaab hideouts spread across Iresqinto, Kutayu and Boji areas.
Several items dug and hidden into the ground were retrieved, among them AK47 and PKM ammunition, medical equipment, drugs, and several jerricans filled with water.
In Garissa County, a joint security team came into contact with about five suspected al-Shabaab militants in Adan Santur.
The team was responding to distress calls from locals whose camels were being forcefully confiscated by the terrorists.
Two camels were recovered and returned to their owners, who expressed immense gratitude to the security forces for their quick response.
The militants, some of them injured, made a narrow escape and crossed the border into Somalia on a bullet-riddled white Toyota Probox vehicle.
This comes amid heightened security following fears the terror group could be planning an attack after a long lull.
The border region has borne the brunt of repeated attacks from the militants who locals at times aid.
Somalia has not had a stable government after the fall of Siad Barre in 1991.
The terrorists have been planting explosives on the routes used by the security agencies.
Kenyan troops are in Somalia to pursue and suppress the activities of the terror group. But the terrorists keep crossing to Kenya for attacks.