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KENYA: 5 policemen feared dead in bomb attack

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KENYA: 5 policemen feared dead in bomb attack

Tragedy struck in the eastern part of Kenya when no less than five police officers lost their lives after their patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.

According to Harun Kamau, Deputy County Commissioner in the region, the police officers were in a vehicle conducting patrols in Harar village, in Liboi town near the Kenya-Somalia border, when the vehicle hit the device suspected to have been planted by Somalia’s al Shabaab group.

“We suspect the improvised explosive device had been planted by al Shabaab group to target our security team, Kamau said.”

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The explosion occurred at around 9 a.m. local Kenyan time and a total of eight police officers were aboard the vehicle.

“It is unfortunate we have lost five police officers while three of their colleagues survived but are critically injured,” he said.

In the last few years, the al Shabab militants frequently launch attacks in neighbouring Kenya to pressure it to withdraw its troops which form part of the peacekeeping force in the region.

 

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