...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...hard boyz died on Tuesday while planting Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs] in Kenya on Tuesday, security teams in Northeastern Kenya confirmed, in yet an attempt to derail operations against their activities on Kenyan soil which is proving rather futile.
According to the reports, the two were assembling and planting the IEDs at Amuma area in the Northeastern part of the East African nation, before they went
kaboom!, killing them instantly. Security officers were stationed within the vicinity and thus were the targets.
For the last few months, security sources say, cases of IEDs have significantly reduced thanks to the security mobilization in the region which has borne fruits. The security teams have also been blocking the hard boyz from carrying out attacks.
The explosion comes a few weeks after Kenya started deploying elite Special Forces from the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] to Wajir, Mandera, Garissa and Lamu counties, where al-Shabaab had heightened IED attacks. For the better part of last week, most of these troops reported.
The government security agencies have also been wooing locals to embrace the sharing of intelligence with security teams to combat al-Shabaab raids. The KDF team has constructed several Forward Operating Bases along the border which would be hosting most troops in the troubled border.