DADAAB ( Halbeeg News)-Twelve Somalis have been arrested at the Dadaab Refugee Camp during a major security swoop conducted two weeks.
Kenyan security agencies have stepped up operations to hunt down perpetrators of two terror attacks in the Kenyan capital, in which 21 people were killed this month.
Kenya’s Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinnet, who spoke to Capital FM on the phone has confirmed the arrest of the suspects in the camp.
Boinnet said one of those arrested is a Somali and had two foreign passports.
“Twelve terror suspects have been arrested in Dadaab refugee camp, one of them has two New Zealand passports in different names,” the police chief said, but did not give details of the rest of the suspects.
He confirmed that they were all being investigated for terrorism, but declining to specify if they were in any way linked to the most recent attack in the capital’s 14 Riverside Complex.
The suspects were arrested during a security operation conducted at the refugee camp in Garissa County – the third largest in the world – mainly hosting asylum seekers from neighbouring Somalia.
Dadaab camp which is a UNHCR base hosts more than 250,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers in four camps.
So far, 17 suspects have been arraigned in court over the January 15 terror attack, staged by five attackers who blasted their way into the complex with grenades and AK-47 rifles.
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