Kenya foils terror attack planned by Somalia-based Islamist militants

Kenya has seized 6 men suspected of planning a terror attack sponsored by the al-Shabaab militant group from neighboring Somalia, the head of Kenyan police said late on Sunday.

Joseph Boinnet, the inspector general of the police, said in a statement that 2 of the suspects were Kenyans and the others were Somali nationals.
Police also seized assembled explosives, 4 suicide vests and bomb-making materials such as TNT.

“The 6 had been dispatched from Burhanche in Somalia by their commanders to launch attacks in Kenya,” Boinnet said.

Kenyan security forces worked with their counterparts in Somalia to foil the attack and to capture the suspects. The captured men were being interrogated to establish the extent of the entire network, Boinnet said.

Kenya has faced a constant security challenge from across the border ever since it sent its troops into Somalia in late 2011, to help defeat the al-Shabaab militants and restore order.

Source: Reuters