Kenyan soldiers and US drones inflict heavy losses in attacks against Shabaab

Garissa University attack mastermind Mohamed Kuno, alias Gamadheere. Kenya's Interior ministry has clarified that Kuno is still alive and is on the loose. PHOTO | FILE

Fifty-three Al-Shabaab terrorists, among them 10 top commanders, were on Thursday killed in two separate dawn attacks on one of the terrorist group’s planning and operation bases in Somalia.

The first attack by a US drone took place in Juungal, between Baardheere and Buur Hajje, at around 2am where two top commanders identified as Jama Deere and Ismael Jamhad were killed.