KDF says al-Shabaab commander Shirwa and Briton militant Thomas Evans killed in Lamu

Bodies of slain Al-Shabaab militants killed by KDF at Bargoni in Lamu County being offloaded from a Military Chopper to a police vehicle at Mpeketoni School grounds in Lamu Countty on Sunday. [PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Kenya's army said it killed a regional commander from Somalia's al Shabaab group, and possibly also a Briton who joined the militants, in fighting over the weekend.

Eleven Somali militants and two Kenyan soldiers were killed when al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab fighters attacked a military base in Kenya's northern coastal region of Lamu County, officials said.