Police on Monday thwarted a terrorist attack and killed a wanted Al-Shabaab member in Kwale.
Regional Police boss Francis Wanjohi said the officers arrested three other suspects and recovered a hand grenade and a motorbike. He said detectives were acting on intelligence information on a planned terror attack within Kwale County.
Wanjohi said the officers raided the hideouts of suspected al shaabaab returnees and killed one of them
According to reports, wanted terror suspect Idris Aden was among the three arrested during the operation.
Aden was dispatched from Al-Shabaab stronghold in Somalia to coordinate terrorist attacks in the Coastal Region.
Police are investigating if the group was behind the recent killing of three Nyumba Kumi officials and a reformed Al-Shabaab returnee in Bongwe area Kwale.
The four had come out openly to oppose the extremism ideologies of the Al-Shabaab militia group, which has managed to radicalize hundreds of youth mainly from South Coast for decades under the watch of security agents.