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Kenyan air force targets al-Shabaab camps after university attack

Kenya's air force air-bombed two Somalian al-Shabaab camps on Sunday in the first major military response to last week's university massacre.

The Interior Ministry yesterday said the son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the suspects involved in the killing of at least 148 people at Garissa University College.

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Kenyan government official's son named as terror suspect

The son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as a suspected al Shabaab gunmen involving in the killing of students at a university, the Interior Ministry has said.

Spokesman Mwenda Njoka said Abdirahim Abdullahi was one of four gunmen who attacked the Garissa University College campus on Thursday, killing 148 people.

The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home... and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened.

– Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka, speaking to Reuters

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