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Al Shabaab suffers blow as KDF kills terror kingpin behind El Adde attack

An Al Shabaab commander suspected to have played a major role in the deadly attack on a Kenyan military camp has been killed. The US government had placed a Sh500 million bounty on his head.

Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) announced yesterday that Mahad Mohammed Karatey alias Mahat Karatey, Al Shabaab's deputy commander was killed in an airstrike on the militia's Nadris camp on February 8.

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