Amani leader Musalia Mudavadi also sent a condolence message sayign the attack showed how serious the threat of terrorism is.
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“Police call on Kenyans to maintain vigilance following latest terrorist attacks in Somalia and Indonesia”.
Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab claims to have killed over 60 Kenyan soldiers during a brazen attack on an African Union (AU) peacekeeping base in the war-torn country on Friday.
Shebab “launched an offensive against a military base in El-Adde” in the southern Gedo region bordering Kenya and Ethiopia, said Col. Ahmed Idris, citing “intense fighting” and “losses”.
“Once this battle ends, we will have the correct number of casualties and proper account of what and how this attack happened”.
Dozens of Kenyan and Somali troops are feared dead after suspected al-Shabaab militants overran a military camp during an ongoing gun-and-bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Kenyan military said Thursday. “The fighting continues and the balance sheet of losses each side is unknown”, he said in a statement. It was a base for Kenyan military forces, there were a few Somali soldiers with Kenyans and escaped.
“For al-Shabaab the control of strategic assets has ceased to be an option since Kenyan forces joined the Amisom effort”, he said.
Al-Shabaab claims they’ve killed at least 63 Kenyan troops. There was no independent figure.
A shopkeeper in the Ceel Cadde town said soldiers from AMISOM appeared to have left the town and fighters were on the streets.
Kenyan military spokesperson David Obonyo said the army “is doing all it can to consolidate the situation in the shortest time possible”, without giving further details. “Some residents have fled”.
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The group, which has ties with al-Qaeda, has also carried out many deadly attacks inside Kenya. It was behind an assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in September 2013 that killed 67 people and an attack on a university in Garissa, in northeastern Kenya, in April, that killed 147 people.
