At least 180 Kenyan soldiers
were killed in Somalia in an attack on their base in mid-January
by Islamist militants al-Shabab, Somalia's president said, which
would represent a historically high battlefield loss for Kenyan
forces, according to the Associated Press.
Between 180 and 200 Kenyan soldiers were killed in the Jan.
15 attack, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Wednesday.
He was speaking in an interview on a Somali cable TV channel
while attending a conference in Turkey. Kenya's government has
concealed the death toll.
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