KDF soldiers SURVIVE deadly attack

Kenya Defence Force (KDF) soldiers have prevented a major al-Shabaab assault on their camp. The terror militants had attempted to lay siege on the KDF camp located in Baardhere, Lower Shabelle region of Somalia. the militants were heavily armed when they raided the KDF camp.

KDF soldiers engaged in a fierce gunfight with the militants before they escaped. No casualties were reported during the fierce fighting. According to reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday, April 26, at dawn.

The deadly terror group al-Shabaab, emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, which once controlled Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. The militant group launched its own insurgency on major Somali cities in 2009, taking control of Mogadishu and southern Somalia, before being removed by allied forces.

The group still controls pockets of territories in Southern and Central Somalia