GARISSA (Halbeeg News) – At least three soldiers sustained injuries after a police camp in Garissa County was attacked armed men.
The attack suspected to have carried out by al-Shabaab fighters took place on Wednesday evening.
Northeastern Regional Commander Rono Bunei said security forces are responding to the attack at Yumbis Rural Border Patrol Unit (RBPU).
“A loud explosion was heard at about 6pm. BPU YUMBIS under heavy Al-Shabaab attack,” the report says.
He said that gunfire has ceased and attackers are being pursued by ground and air muilti-agency security team.
On June 2019, three al Shabaab fighters were killed after they staged an attack at the same police post.
Police on Friday night thwarted an attack on a police post by suspected Al-Shabaab suspects in Mandera County.
“There was heavy exchange of fire and the militants fire RPGs but we’re repulsed by the officers,” he said.
Kenya’s northeastern region has been borne the brunt of grenade and gun attacks in the last several years since Kenya took its troops to Somalia to fight the al-Shabaab group.
Al-Shabaab group has been attacking areas along Kenya-Somalia border while targeting mostly non- locals working in the region.
Many people, majority of them non- locals have as a result lost their lives with others left with permanent injuries.
The group vowed to continue staging attacks on Kenya’s soil until the East Africa nation withdraws from Somalia.
Kenya had sent its troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight al-Shabaab following several attacks in Kenya’s coastal region allegedly conducted by the terror group.
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