Multi-agency teams Monday, May 22 stopped a major planned terrorist attack and recovered an arsenal of weapons in an operation in Alango, Garissa County.
Police said the team recovered six AK47 rifles, two Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), PKM, two grenades other items.
This is after the team raided an Al-Shabaab camp in Alango in Garissa which militants planned to use to launch attacks in the County.
Two suspects who were present were taken in for grilling while the other accomplices managed to escape. They are under interrogation.
A police source said they are hoping to make more arrests in the area in their operation.
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This comes in the wake of reports the terror gang has been sending their members to Kenya in the past month in readiness for an attack.
Police say they have upped their operations in the area to tame the plans for the attacks.
“This is a good recovery coming at a time when we are facing threats by the terrorists. The operation is ongoing,” said a senior officer who asked not to be named.
This comes in the wake of fears of more attacks in the region amid increased operations.
Two ambushes have happened in the past two months which left police officers injured.
It comes in the wake of announcements that three border points between Kenya and Somalia that have been closed for close to 12 years are set to be opened.
The three border points-Handera-Bulahawa in Mandera County, Liboi-Harhar in Garissa County and Kiunga-Daresalam in Lamu County -were closed in 2011 at the height of invasions and attacks masterminded by the al-Shabaab terror group.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki held a meeting with his Somalia counterpart Mohamed Sheikh Doodishe Monday May 15 to deliberate on the roadmap to reopening the three border points.
It comes after the launch of the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia border project in Mandera.
The shutdowns have not stopped people from crossing the border illegally or smuggling goods.
In the last five years, Kenya’s northeast has experienced a long series of attacks by al-Shabab fighters.
In the deadliest attack, the Islamist militant group killed nearly 150 people at Garissa University College in 2015.
Somalia-based al-Shabab has been active in Kenya since 2011, when Kenya first contributed troops to the African Union-led peacekeeping mission in Somalia.