24 May, 2017
Three Kenyan police officers died after their vehicle hit a landmine near Kulan Dam in Liboi, Garissa County on Wednesday morning, police source confirmed.
The biggest attack was on a governor's convoy in Mandera, in the extreme northeast of the country near the border with Somalia.
A Reuters reporter at the scene saw burnt bodies and a wrecked vehicle near a damaged police checkpoint. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the first attack but could not be reached for comment on the second. "All the dead officers are from one work station", Saleh told Reuters, without revealing the number of wounded officers. "They plant these IEDs to target our security people".
The officer who spoke to Anadolu Agency said the casualties had recently been posted to the area.
Police say one of the suspects took part in an attack that killed four civilians in Garissa County's Liboi border and the other was involved in the killing of Chief in Omar Jiliow in Mandera County earlier this month. We destroyed the police auto. Most are claimed by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militia, which is fighting to overthrow the weak United Nations -backed government and drive out the African Union peacekeeping force supporting it.
"One mujahid (fighter) was martyred after he targeted security officials with his vehicle bomb", said the spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing but Kenya's eastern border with Somalia is notoriously restive and prone to attacks staged by Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants.
The police said on Tuesday they were on alert for an increase in violence after al Shabaab fighters were detected moving into Kenya in small groups.
Islamic militants "are dispatching operatives into parts of northeastern 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.
