According to a Kenyan government official, ten al-Shabab fighters have been killed by security forces in the nation's east.
Following a battle with the group on Wednesday in the village of Galmagalla in the county of Garissa, deputy county commissioner Thomas Bett of the Bura East sub-county claimed on Thursday that they had discovered improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades.
He states, "Our multi-agency team carried out the operation to flush out the Somalia militants' group in the region and [it] succeeded to neutralise 10 Islamist group militants and retrieve assault weapons." He claimed this in an interview with the Reuters news agency.
No one from al-Shabab representatives could be reached.
The Kenyan branch of al-Qaeda has been infiltrating the nation for years in an effort to have Kenya withdraw its troops from the African Union-mandated peacekeeping mission that supports the Somali government in its fight against the organisation.
Even while Al-Shabab attacks have become less frequent and more intense recently, they nevertheless have a negative impact on the security forces, schools, cars, communities, and telecommunications infrastructure in eastern Kenya.
A Nairobi mall attack in 2013 resulted in the deaths of 67 people.
Al-Shabab has been fighting for ten years to topple the Somalian government and establish a strict Islamic theocracy based on the canonical texts of the faith.
Four Kenyan Highways Authority workers were killed last week after their truck struck a roadside bomb in Garissa. In the same region on Tuesday, a rocket-propelled grenade struck a convoy and killed one person.