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Urgent: Kenyan soldiers kill senior Al-Shabaab commander

Xinhua, January 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kenya's military said Thursday its soldiers who are pursuing Islamist militants after last week's attack in southern Somalia have killed the militants' senior commander.

Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe told journalists in Nairobi that Maalim Janow was killed in a Kenya Defence Force airstrike. Endit