Three others have also been charged in connection with the killings.
However, Somalia’s Shabaab insisted they carried out the massacres. They have staged a string of revenge attacks for Kenya’s military role in southern Somalia, including last year’s siege of the Westgate shopping mall that left 67 people dead.
Kenyan fighter jets and attack helicopters renewed air strikes on Sunday in southern Somalia targeting Shabaab bases, as part of an offensive by the 22,000-strong UN-backed AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM), who launched in March a fresh bid to wrest remaining towns from the Islamists.
But Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab, who said Kenyan troops with the AU were also fighting the Islamists on the ground Monday, dismissed as propaganda Kenyan claims over 80 of his fighters had been killed.
Separately, at least 20 people were killed over the weekend in northeastern Kenya in ethnic clashes, the latest in a series of revenge attacks between rival clans that has killed over 80 people and forced over 75,000 people from their homes since May.
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