Kilifi family identifies one soldier killed in Dobley Al Shabaab attack

Marieta Kenga holds a potrait of his fifty one year old brother Henry Matano Kenga at the Kambi village in Kaloleni. [Gideon Maundu/Standard]

A family in Kambe, Kilifi, has identified one of the Kenyan soldiers killed in an attack by Al Shabaab insurgents in Dobley town of Somalia on Sunday.

The family said Henry Matano, 51, was among the 12 soldiers killed in a landmine explosion. The soldiers based at Nyali Barracks in Mombasa were returning to Kenya after completing a duty in Somalia.