Another Bomb attack In Kenya-Several policemen dead
Several police officers are feared dead after a police vehicle ran over a landmine on Malelei-Kulan road in Liboi, Garissa County. The Kenya Red Cross has confirmed 5 officers dead Thursday.
Yesterday four Administration Police officers were killed in a similar attack near Kulan Dam in Liboi Kenya.
None has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Kenya’s Eastern neighbor Somalia has on several occasions staged attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants.
This attack come a day after police warned of increased Islamist activity in the area.
Islamic militants “are dispatching operatives into parts of north eastern region to lay IEDs along routes used by our security patrols in efforts to frustrate our security operations at the border areas,” the police statement said.
Kenya’s Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet last week warned that some members of the terrorist group had sneaked into the country and were planning attacks saying they were behind a series of attacks, including a recent attack in Mandera where a chief was killed.
The Al Shabaab began attacking Kenya in 2011 after Nairobi ordered its troops into Somalia to fight their militants.
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