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Kenyan jets kill '60 or more' Somali insurgents

By AFP
Kenya More than 50 insurgents were also injured.  By Abdiwahab Haji AFPFile
JAN 7, 2012 LISTEN
More than 50 insurgents were also injured. By Abdiwahab Haji (AFP/File)

NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan fighter jets killed at least 60 Islamist Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia in the latest air strike on insurgent positions, officials said Saturday.

"Provisional casualties are that Al-Shebab lost 60 or more fighters, and more than 50 were injured," Kenyan army spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna told reporters.

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