Author: Abdikarim Hussein
- Fresh details have emerged of the deadly Kulbiyow attack on Friday, January 27
- KDF survivor of the attack has claimed al-Shabaab militants who attacked their base included arab looking men
- The arabic speaking fighters seemed well trained during the brutal attack
A Kenya Defence Force (KDF) soldier who survived the Kulbiyow attack has revealed fresh details of the deadly raid on the Kenyan military base.
KDF survivor of the attack has claimed al-Shabaab militants who attacked their base included arab looking men.
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The survivor said the militants had several foreign fighters in their ranks and claimed a majority of them were arabic speakers.
After the attack several bodies of Arab-looking men was discovered in the destroyed military base.
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The survivor said the militants had several foreign fighters in their ranks and claimed a majority of them were arabic speakers.
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According to the Star, the KDF soldier revealed that the foreign fighters especially the arabs seemed well trained during the battle.
"The foreigners were used to push up the numbers of the attackers who came in waves during the battle," the Star reports.
Al-Shabaab on Friday, January 27, launched a deadly dawn raid on a KDF base in Kulbiyow in Jubbaland, Somalia.
The militants detonated three vehicles laden with explosives before overrunning the camp.
Al-Shabaab on Friday, January 27, launched a deadly dawn raid on a KDF base in Kulbiyow in Jubbaland, Somalia.
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Reports indicate that immediately after the twin explosions, heavy gunfight broke out before Kenyan troops with their counterparts of the Somali National Army SNA tactically retreated to avoid more loss of soldiers as communication system had failed.
The militants claimed to have killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers which was dismissed by KDF as propaganda, the ministry of defence in a statement said only 9 Kenyan soldiers were killed but conflicting media reports in the country put the figure of dead soldiers at 68.
The militants detonated three vehicles laden with explosives before overrunning the camp.
TUKO.co.ke revealed that the men behind the attack were the Salah Nabhan brigade.
The brigade is a well trained commando group of al-Shabaab which was named after a Mombasa based al-qaeda operative Salah Nabhan.
Watch a video on the Kulbiyow attack below.
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