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Details of Al Shabaab attack on Kenyan forces emerge

Defence Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo and Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathethe address the press at Wilson Airport after receiving four KDF soldiers who were injured in Somalia attack. ( Photo: Denish Ochieng)

The soldiers killed and injured by Al Shabaab at El Adde in Somalia's Gedo region belonged to 9th Kenya Rifles formation in Eldoret and arrived in Somalia by road two days before the attack by militants, military sources indicate.

KDF soldiers in Somalia under AMISOM are deployed for periods and are often rotated within Somalia itself or are withdrawn and replaced with other soldiers after a certain period.

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