Photo/FILE Kenya Army soldiers patrolling the Kenya-Somali border.

Somalia's Islamist rebels said Tuesday they attacked a convoy of Kenyan troops in the south of the war-torn country and caused casualties.
Regional Al-Shebab commander Sheik Mohamed Ibrahim and witnesses said the ambush occurred between the villages of Taabto and Dobley.
"We ambushed the enemy convoy this afternoon and inflicted heavy casualties on them. The mujahideen fighters destroyed several of the military trucks in the convoy," Ibrahim said
The Kenyan military spokesman could not be reached to confirm the insurgents' claim.
"We heard heavy gunfire and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) fired but we don't know the casualties," an elder in Taabto, Abdirahman Osman, told AFP.
"The Kenyan troops often use that road which links Dobley and Taabto but the firefight this afternoon was very intense."
Kenyan soldiers and tanks rolled into Shabaab-controlled southern Somalia some two weeks ago to fight the insurgents and curtail their ability to launch cross-border attacks. (READ: Kenya sets up bases to fight Somali raiders)Kenyan authorities accuse the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab of recent kidnappings of foreigners and incursion on its territory, a charge the rebels deny.