Three Americans were killed when Al-Shabaab fighters stormed a Kenyan air base used by the US military in Lamu county on Sunday in a particularly brazen attack on Kenyan soil by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group.
US Africa Command said that a US service member and two Department of Defense contractors had been killed, and two other department members wounded, in the early morning assault against Manda Bay airfield on the Indian Ocean coastline.
Four al-Shabaab militants were also killed, according to a statement from the Kenya Defence Forces, adding that the attack had been repulsed and that the airstrip was secured.
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