BRITISH ALSHABAB FIGHTER KILLED BY KENYA FORCES

Thomas Evans a British citizen has been identified as one of the 11 Alshabab fighters killed on Sunday in Lamu Kenya by Kenya defence forces KDF a security official told this blog

On Sunday morning the Somali militant group attacked a military base in Lamu. The militants were however overpowered by the Kenya forces leaving 11 of them and 2 Kenyan soldiers dead

Among the dead seen in a photo shared by this blog on Facebook and Twitter was a European man

Kenya police in a statement had said that two "white" foreign fighters were killed and several weapons including AK47 rifles, grenades, PKM, rounds of ammo were recovered

The bodies of the slain Alshabab fighters are to be paraded to the public for identification an officer privy to tbe case  told this blog

Information which is yet to be made public by the Kenya Police indicate that the European Alshabab fighter is Thomas Evans

Evans reverted to Islam while he was 19yrs old according to info by British intelligence reports

Evans aka AbdulHamid joined Alshabab in 2012

He Hails from High Wycombe in the UK


The Sunday attack coincided with the 1st Anniversary of the Mpeketoni attack where more than 67 Kenyans were killed by Alshabab

A source close to the militant group told this blog that Alshabab had planned a major attack  on Sunday referring it to Bloody Sunday

A Video Camera now confiscated by Kenya security was at hand to record the attack

Two days before this latest attack Alshabab had threatened to launch attacks on Kenyan soil during the month of Ramadan which begins on Wednesday.

Kenya is on high alert following the threat