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Kenyan warplanes attack suspected militant positions

Kenya launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said April 6.
     
Warplanes attacked positions of the Shebab militant group on Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning, said Col. David Obonyo of the Kenyan military.
     

Kenya Responds to Garissa Attack, Bombs Al-Shabaab Bases in Somalia

Kenyan fighter jets bombed on Sunday positions of the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia in response to the recent terrorist attack carried against Garissa University College.

The military planes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, which are used by Al-Shabaab to cross into Kenya, the BBC reports.

At Least 15 Killed as Hostage Crisis Unfolds at Kenya University

Gunmen have killed at least fifteen people and taken students as hostages at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia.

According to aid workers and police, about 30 people were injured as five masked gunmen stormed the building of the university, the BBC reports.

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