{Kenya\u2019s army said it attacked camps used by the Islamist group al-Shabaab, killing more than 100 fighters, after the militants claimed responsibility for a bus attack in the northeast of the country that left 28 people dead.}<\/p>\n
Fighter jets targeted two camps near Godondowe in Somalia, killing 95 militants, Kenya\u2019s Defence Ministry said late yesterday in an e-mailed statement. Ground troops and helicopter gunships killed another 20 members of the al-Qaeda-linked group as they fled to the Arabia Hills along the Kenya-Somali border, it said. Al-Shabaab, in a statement broadcast on Radio Andalus, denied they lost fighters in government attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis rapid action is itself a huge victory against regional terrorist networks,\u201d Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said in a statement. \u201cIt emboldens us to ultimately deliver our promise to secure our citizens against internal and external aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the Nov. 22 attack on a bus while it was traveling between the towns of Mandera and Bulla Arabia, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) northeast of the capital, Nairobi. Non-Muslims were separated from other passengers before being killed by gunmen, according to Mandera Deputy County Commissioner Elvin Korir.<\/p>\n
Kenya has faced increasing attacks by Islamist militants since sending its troops into neighboring Somalia in October 2011 to fight al-Shabaab, which has waged an insurgency against that country\u2019s government since 2006.<\/p>\n
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