MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Suspected al-Shabaab fighters have killed four Kenyan police officers in an attack on Tuesday in Gariisa county near Kenya’s border with Somalia.
According to multiple sources, the officers were travelling in a probox car when they ran into an ambush between Liboi and Kulan area.
The officers were robbed of three AK47 rifles and an unknown number of bullets. The incident is the latest to happen in the area.
The attack came hours after al-Shabaab gunmen reportedly destroyed a communication mast in Omar Jilo, Mandera, leaving many out of reach.
Witnesses said there were dozens of men roaming the area before and after the attack.
Kenyan security officials said January is usually the time many of the locally militarised terrorists and those sent from Somalia try to send a message.
So far up to four terror related incidents have happened in the stretch. The incidents claimed 16 lives.
They include the killing of a civilian on new year’s, seven people and four police officers in Lamu county.
The attacks are linked to terrorism and local politics.
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