Kenya detains two suspected members of Somali Islamist group
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Kenyan soldiers and police provide security at the site where the Papal Mass will take place, in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (AP FILE PHOTO)
Kenyan police have arrested two suspected members of the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab for planning attacks on churches and other sites in Nairobi, police said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Kenyans have been killed in attacks claimed by al
Shabaab, including a 2013 assault on a Nairobi shopping mall and a 2015 raid on
a university in the northeast. The group says it is waging a war to drive
Kenyan troops out of Somalia, where they are fighting the militants as part of
an African force.
"Two most wanted
terrorists and several forged and fraudulently obtained identification
documents were seized," according to the statement issued by the office of
the police Inspector General, adding the men were detained on Saturday.
"The two suspects and their accomplices are suspected to have
been planning to stage attacks in Nairobi, targeting entertainment joints and
churches," it said, adding that some accomplices escaped and may have fled
to Somalia.
(Reporting by Humphrey Malalo; Writing by Edmund Blair)
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