The government says 60 Al-Shabaab militants involved in the Lamu attack that two people died have been killed.
The Interior Cabinet Secretary(CS) Kithure Kindiki has revealed that a security operation yesterday neutralized the terrorist along Lamu-Garsen road, Lamu County.
“That operation has been going on since yesterday and I can report we have neutralized all those threats. All people who attacked our people yesterday have been neutralized,” said Kindiki.
On Tuesday morning, suspected al-Shabaab terrorists assaulted a car in the Ngorongoro region on the Lamu-Garsen road in Lamu County, leaving two persons dead and ten others injured.
“The agencies were nearby and the response was very fast. Unfortunately we ended up losing one person on the spot and the other died on the way to the hospital. The attackers were many and heavily armed. We neutralized all of them,” Kindiki stated.
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Despite the increase in terror attacks in the country, Kindiki has emphasized that his docket has successfully neutralised most of them due to intensified security agencies' operations.
“I am happy to report that despite the few evil successes by terrorist we have neutralized thousands of threats. Many have been not reported because of nature of the operations. This are armed operations,” he said.
