Six suspected Al-Shabaab militants have been arrested amid reports that the terrorist group planned to carry out attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa over the festive period.
Police commissioner Mathew Iteere said the suspects arrested on separate days this week belong to a local cell of the group with links to the global Al-Qaeda terror network.
The local cell of Al-Shabaab operates from Majengo area in Nairobi, according to a past confidential security brief. The police chief added that the suspects had been interrogated and that his officers were on the lookout for others.
Security officials reveal that the six had on several occasions travelled to Somalia and undergone military training in Al-Shabaab camps in recent years.
The decision to arrest the suspects is understood to have been made after a report prepared by intelligence officers who had been tracking their movements warned the group was planning deadly attacks in Kenya.
The four suspects arrested in Nairobi are reported to have met regularly in various places in the past week.
The intelligence warned that their meetings pointed to a “dangerous mission on track.”
Before the arrests, intelligence officers had also tracked one of the suspects to a busy street at the city centre and believed he was carrying out surveillance for the Al-Shabaab.
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