The widow of a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier killed in Somalia said she talked to her husband before he was killed by Al-Shabaab militants.
The wife, Margaret Wairimu said she talked to her husband, Mr Boniface Kamau, on phone on the morning he died.
The 28-year-old KDF soldier was among the nine who were killed in an attack by suspected Al-Shabaab militants near Somalia town of Dhobley.
The KDF soldiers were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Ms Wairimu said on the faithful day, her husband said they were stuck on the road in an enemy territory following heavy rains.
She said they were just from escorting a convoy of military vehicles that had brought them food supplies back to Kenya.
“He told me that together with his colleagues, they were in an enemy territory and things were bad. His last words were that in case he died, I take care of his children before he disconnected the phone. I called him several times without him taking the phone including the following day in vain,” the wife said as quoted by tuko.co.ke.
During the interview with tuko.co.ke Ms Wairimu was too emotional as she explained how her two daughters broke the sad news to her after the attack was broadcast by a vernacular radio station.
“The eldest told me the radio said some soldiers have been killed in Somalia where my father works and asked me whether he was safe. I was left speechless. It was until later in the day when I spotted a vehicle belonging to the KDF get into our home that I noted that all was not well,”
“The area chief who accompanied the soldiers avoided to break the sad news but when I spotted my father in law crying, I concluded my husband was dead,” she added.