Kenyan authorities said Thursday they were interrogating eight terror suspects, including the wives of two al Qaeda suspects, who were arrested while fleeing U.S. air strikes in Ras Kamboni, near the common border with Somalia.

"The people who were arrested are assisting us with investigations. We cannot divulge their whereabouts because of the sensitivity of the investigations," Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua told a news conference in Nairobi Thursday.

Mutua did not indicate if the wives of the suspects had given any crucial leads to the whereabouts of their husbands, but Kenyan security agents said the crackdown against suspected terrorists would continue.

He said Kenya was sharing intelligence with the U.S. and other governments in Europe and Africa to ensure a proper clampdown on terrorists.

"Kenya is in the forefront in the fight against terrorism," Mutua added.

U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger earlier refuted media reports that a senior al Qaeda suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was killed in air strikes near Ras Kamboni.

Fazul is wanted for the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi and in Dar es Salaam, which killed about 256 people and a separate strike in Mombasa, where a car bomb ripped through an Israeli resort.

Source: Xinhua