Kenyan warplanes bomb Al-Shabab camp

Kenyan military aircraft have pounded camp of Al-Shabab fighters in the outskirt of Kismayo town in southern Somalia.

Sources said Kenya planes bombed targets held by Al-Shabab in Somalia, in retaliation for an attack on military base in El-Adde.

Earlier last week, Somali army officials in Gedo region and other local elders revealed that the Kenyan warplanes airborne attacks caused the death of at least 17 civilians and wounded over 30 others.

This came weeks after Al-Shabab fighters raided a Kenyan military base in the region which caused the death of dozens of Kenyan soldiers, part of the African Union mission in Somalia.

Hundreds of families have been forced to leave their houses in El Adde village, South-western Somalia and surrounding areas to escape airstrikes being carried out by Kenyan military.

A member of the Somali Federal Parliament, Abdifatah Matan who hails from the region close to the Somalia-Kenya border, strongly condemned the death of the civilians and said that Kenyan peacekeepers have no any mandate of carrying out airstrikes against civilians.

In the past, Kenyan warplanes killed dozens of civilians in Southern Somalia in airborne attacks aimed at the al-Qaeda-linked extremists