MANDERA (Halbeeg News) – Somali Gunmen suspected to be al-Shabaab fighters have attack Omar-jiliow village in Mandera county near Kenya-Somalia border.
The officer who was killed was a police reservist in the area.
Police said Mohamed Omar Ali was killed after his home was attacked by gunmen on Monday night.
Security forces have arrived at the scene this morning and conducted operations to hunt down the attackers.
The attack comes less than two weeks after al-Shabaab attack a bus from Nairobi in an area between Kutulo and Wajir town.
Several passengers were injured in the attack.
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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