Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters have promised to kill more five  Kenyan hostages after  claiming responsibility of executing a captured Kenyan soldier,Aljazeera reports

The  al-Qaeda-linked group made the claim  of killing the hostages in three days  on Friday.The group  demand the Kenyan government to release all the captured Muslim prisoners who were arrested on terrorism charges or they kill all the hostages in their hands.

“While the mujahedeen have executed the serving KDF [Kenya Defence Force] soldier, there is still a chance of securing the release of the remaining five prisoners,” al-Shabab said in a statement.

The al-Shabab issued a February 14 deadline ordering Kenya – whose troops are fighting the anti-government group seeking to impose Islamic law inside Somalia – to release “all Muslim prisoners held on so-called terrorism charges in Kenya”.

By UP