The response to a horrible attack.

Fox News reports.

Kenya launches airstrikes against al-Shabaab in response to college attack

GARISSA, Kenya – Kenya’s military said Monday that it had launched airstrikes against Islamist positions in Somalia after a terror attack at a university that killed 148 people last week.

Military spokesman Col David Obonyo told the Associated Press that warplanes had attacked positions held by the al-Shabaab terror group in the Gedo region of Somalia beginning Sunday afternoon and continuing into Monday morning. Gedo is directly across Kenya’s border in western Somalia.

“This is part of continuing operations, not just in response to Garissa,” he said, a reference to the town in northeastern Nigeria where the attack occurred.

Al-Shabaab had previously claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya and vowed to carry out others in response to Kenya sending troops to Somalia in 2011 to do battle with the terror group after gunmen carried out cross-border raids and kidnappings.