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A file picture of Al Shabaab recruits in Somalia. The 17 who were arrested are Form Four leaves and Class Seven dropouts. [File, Standard]
Police in Kinango, Kwale County, have arrested 17 youths in a safe house in Samburu township whom they claimed were being processed to join Al Shabaab in Somalia.
The suspects, 15 men and two young women, are aged between 18 and 27 years, according to police, who claimed the youths' homes had been traced to the Coast and Rift Valley regions.
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