Kenya military chopper crashes

[Jacaylbaro]

A Kenyan military helicopter crashed at the border with Somalia on Sunday afternoon.

 

Witnesses said two helicopters landed at an operation base near Liboi primary school but during lift off, one of them crashed and caught fire.

 

The helicopter crew had landed at the base established by the Kenyan military near the border with Somalia.

 

It was not immediately clear what caused the accident.

[nemo]

Link?

 

If this is true mac sonkor caleen shaax

[Jacaylbaro]

THE LINK:

 

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenya+military+chopper+crashes/-/1056/1256716/-/72sf1oz/-/index.html

[Jiiroow Bakaal]

Boom Boom - Shakalaka Shakalaka Shakalaka

 

I feel sorry those Somalis who invested heavily in Kenya if this war becomes longer than how they planned they will

start MASAAKA and destroy the Somali community who anyway deserves

[Jacaylbaro]

‎5 Kenya military personnel killed in Liboi after chopper crashes on developing mechanical problems.

Citizen TV Kenya

[Jacaylbaro]

A military chopper crashed at the Kenya Somalia border on Sunday, killing five Kenyan military personnel.

 

However, the Department of Defence quickly denied speculation that it may have been brought down by an enemy fire.

 

Officials said initial investigations show that the plane went down after a mechanical malfunction or pilot error.

 

"It crashed while taking off and caught fire, all the five soldiers on board died. It was not brought down," Military Operations Information Officer Major Emmanuel Chirchir said.

 

He said the crash occurred near Liboi during lift-off on Sunday evening.

 

Maj Chirchir also confirmed that the chopper was part of a contingent of military personnel that has been deployed to pursue Al Shabaab militia into Somalia following insecurity on the Kenya-Somalia border.

 

Witnesses said the chopper crashed soon after take off and went up in flames.

 

Heavily armed contingents of military officers are in the Somalia side fighting off Al Shabaab militants who have been blamed for recent kidnappings of four European women and several other kidnappings since 2009.

 

Kenyan troops and tanks crossed the border into war-torn Somalia Sunday to attack Islamist Shabaab rebels accused of kidnapping foreigners, who in turn warned Kenya that its soldiers faced the "pain of bullets."

 

Witnesses said the Kenyan personnel are deep in Somalia tracking down the militants who are hiding there.

 

The assault came a day after Kenya’s Internal Security Minister George Saitoti and his defence counterpart Yusuf Hajji branded Shabaab fighters "the enemy" and vowed to attack them "wherever they will be."

 

In just over a month, a British woman and a French woman have been abducted from beach resorts in two separate incidents, dealing a major blow to Kenya’s tourism industry.

 

On Thursday, two female Spanish aid workers were seized by gunmen from Kenya’s crowded Dadaab refugee camp, the world’s largest with some 450,000 mainly Somali refugees.

 

Two Kenyan soldiers who were abducted in July are still in the hands of the militants and it is believed Kenya is using the invasion to rescue them.

 

The militants in Somalia say they are holding two Kenyan soldiers Corporal Evans Mutoro and senior sergeant Jonathan Kipkosgei Kangogo who they captured in near Dhoobley border.

 

The group posted a message on the Internet saying they caught the two men while on a surveillance mission. Saitoti said he believes the two are still safe in the hands of the militant group.

 

At the border, witnesses said they saw large numbers of troops, as well as military planes and helicopters overhead, while truckloads of soldiers were reported to be heading towards the frontier.

 

Several tanks and military trucks crossed the border alongside quite a number of troops.

 

On Saturday, Somali government troops and allied militia wrested control of the Shabaab-held town of Qoqani in the Lower Juba region, which borders Kenya, backed by heavy bombing by military aircraft. Kenya’s air force was not involved in those attacks.

 

The US military has carried out a number of attacks in recent years against Al-Qaeda militants believed to be hiding in Somalia, including using unmanned drones.

 

Kenya already backs anti-Shabaab and pro-government militia groups in Somali border regions as efforts to create a buffer zone from hostile rebels.

 

Authorities have on several occasions expressed fears Islamist extremists would infiltrate the Dadaab camps from Somalia, as the border lies barely 100 kilometres (60 miles) away.

 

Tens of thousands of Somalis have arrived in Dadaab this year fleeing drought, famine and conflict in their home nation.

 

And while Kenya has blamed the abductions on the Islamist Shabaab, experts say the kidnappings could also be the work of pirates, bandits or opportunistic criminal gangs.

 

Somalia has had no effective government ever since it plunged into repeated rounds of civil wars beginning in 1991, allowing a flourishing of militia armies, extremist rebels and piracy.

 

 

 

Source: The Standard

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

what a sad case Kenyans can't fight a war

[Abdul]

Nothing good will come out of this.Only more suffering to somalis who dont need it at this point and time

[Somalia]

Jiiroow Bakaal;751934 wrote:

Boom Boom - Shakalaka Shakalaka Shakalaka

 

I feel sorry those Somalis who invested heavily in Kenya if this war becomes longer than how they planned they will

start MASAAKA and

destroy the Somali community who anyway deserves

[Som@li]

Kenyans can not fight, and can not handle the heat