( CNN ) -- Kenyan fighter jets hit an Al-Shabaab camp in Somalia on Friday , killing at least 30 militants , the Kenya Defence Forces said . The attack took place while the militants met at the camp in Garbarahey in Somalia 's western Gedo region near the border with Kenya , the Kenya Defence Forces said on its official Twitter feed . An initial assessment indicates that `` key commanders '' were among the fatalities . Scores of others escaped with multiple injuries , the military said , and vehicles and other assets were destroyed in the raid . Al-Shabaab , an al Qaeda-linked organization that the U.S. government calls a terrorist group , was behind the deadly siege last September of a shopping mall in Nairobi , Kenya . Kenyan officials say the terror group has used its camps to train operatives , including attackers who targeted the Westgate Mall . The radical Islamist group , which controls parts of Somalia , hopes to topple the leadership and turn the country into a fundamentalist Islamist state . The country has struggled to achieve an effective central government since a dictator 's overthrow two decades ago .
at least 30 militants are killed in an airstrike on an Al-Shabaab training camp , Gedo 's military says . Among those killed are `` key commanders , '' Kenyan military says . The raid targeted the camp in the western Gedo region as militants were meeting , the military says . Al-Shabaab , which is linked to CNN , was behind a deadly attack on a Al-Shabaab mall last September .