Four terror suspects in Kenya have been killed during a dawn raid on a safe house in the coastal town of Malindi, police in the East African nation say.<\/p>\n
The officers recovered arms, ammunition and a map of the area detailing future targets for attack, regional police commissioner Nelson Marwa said.<\/p>\n
Suleiman Awadh, on Kenya’s most-wanted list, was among those killed, he said.<\/p>\n
The Somalia-based al-Shabab Islamist militant group has launched a number of deadly high-profile attacks in Kenya.<\/p>\n
These include storming a shopping centre the capital, Nairobi, in 2013 and raiding a university in the north-eastern town of Garissa last year.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the Garissa attack, the police released photographs of those suspects on their most-wanted list.<\/p>\n
Awahd had a $20,000 (\u00a315,000) bounty on his head – and police said he may have been linked to attacks in the coastal town of Mpeketoni in 2014.<\/p>\n
The gun battle in Malindi broke out after the suspects refused to surrender and threw a grenade at officers, police said.<\/p>\n
The maps recovered in the raid showed plans to attack a police station, a supermarket and a park in the popular tourism destination, according to Malindi police chief Matawa Muchangi, quoted in Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper.<\/p>\n
Police also said they found a letter requesting financial support, which they suspect was addressed to al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
Three other suspects wounded in the exchange escaped and are still at large.<\/p>\n
Last week’s deadly al-Shabab attack on a Kenyan army base in Somalia has prompted a nationwide terror alert in Kenya.<\/p>\n
The Somali-based militant group said it had killed more 100 Kenyan soldiers in the attack on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Kenyan military has denied this, but has not come up with its own casualty figures.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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