At least 60 terrorists involved in Tuesday’s Lamu attack have been killed, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki announced Wednesday.
Kindiki said the 60 attackers have all been neutralized by security officers in an operation that ended Wednesday morning.
“All the people who attacked our people yesterday have been neutralized, all of them,” Kindiki told Members of Parliament on Wednesday.
The attackers believed to be members of the al Shabaab terror group attacked five vehicles some of which were carrying at least 200 passengers at the intersection of Lamu and Tana River counties.
The operation, Kindiki noted, was made possible due to the frequent patrols by elite security officers along the Lamu / Garsen road.
The CS was speaking when he appeared before the National Assembly Education Committee over the security of non-local teachers in Northern Kenya.
It was not possible to verify his claims of killing all the 60 suspects in the attack on the Lamu-Witu-Garsen Highway.
Kindiki said the government will enhance dominance patrols in the Northern Eastern and Upper Coastal regions to detect and neutralize terror attacks targeting civilians, security officers, critical infrastructure, and personnel, among them teachers, road construction engineers, and hydrologists.
During Tuesday’s attack, at least two people were killed and 10 others injured in an attack by al Shabaab suspected terrorists at the border of Lamu and Tana River Counties.
At least five vehicles using the route were attacked in the Tuesday attack.
Others were burnt by the terrorists.
Among the vehicles attacked and damaged include that of Hindi Prisons, which was shot at as the driver used the road but managed to escape.
The gang behind the attacks cross from Somalia and launch them amid a campaign to address the issue.
Somalia has not had a stable government after the fall of Siad Barre in 1991.
