After the horrific attack at a Kenyan university last Thursday, military officials said that they have bombed training camps of the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia.
The New York Times reported that in response to last week’s attack on students at Garissa University College, military officials said Monday that Kenyan fighter jets have bombed two al-Shabab training camps.
"We targeted the two areas because according to information we have, those fellows are coming from there to attack Kenya," a defense force official said.
Al-Shabab is the militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack at Garissa in which gunmen shot and killed 148 people. It is also the same group that reportedly carried out the 2013 attack at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, killing more than 65 people.
Reuters noted that one of gunmen who stormed the university was a son of a Kenyan government official. He was reported missing after he crossed into Somalia to join the militant group.
The Garissa attack was the deadliest the country has faced since 1998.