Kenya claims destruction of al-Shabaab bases

The Kenyan air force claims to have destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week.

Al-Shabaab denied the camps were hit, saying the airforce bombs fell on farmland. Gunmen from the al- Qaeda-aligned group slaughtered 148 people on Thursday when they stormed the Garissa University College campus, some 200km from the Somali border.

Jets pounded the camps in the Gedo region on the other side of the border on Sunday, Kenya Defence Forces spokesman David Obonyo said.