Kenyan military Jets bombed a base run by Islamist al-Shabaab rebels north of Somalia’s Kismayo port on Wednesday, local residents and officials said, but it was not immediately clear whether there were civilian casualties.
Local resident in Birta-Dheer village near Kismayo town confirmed to Shabelle Media by phone the bombardment and said the jets hit the militants’ base near the village early hours on Wednesday. No militant casualty was also reported in the attack.
Also in the news Kenyan military forces carrying tanks and artillery have been massing around Biibi village, a town just 85-Km away from north of Kismayo, the nerve centre of al-Shabaab operations in the Horn of Africa country.