Five Kenyan policemen have been killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the north-eastern town of Liboi, near the border with Somalia. The attack happened almost at the exact spot where four officers were killed in a similar attack yesterday, which has been claimed by al-Shabab militants. Five other officers were killed in … Read more
Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northeastern Kenya, a day after two separate IEDs killed eight officers, a regional security official said. “The five police officers killed in the attack were headed to boost the ongoing operation in Liboi,” said North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Ali Saleh … Read more
Eight police officers were killed Wednesday when their vehicles hit roadside bombs in two separate incidents in Kenya’s restive northeast close to the Somali border. The first explosion claimed three lives early Wednesday morning while the second killed five later in the afternoon. The afternoon blast struck the convoy of Mandera county governor Ali Roba … Read more
Nairobi (AFP) – Islamist gunmen launched an overnight attack on a police camp in Kenya’s north-east, close to the Somali border, police and militants said Thursday. “Over 50 terrorists attacked the police patrol base in two Land Cruisers but the officers in the camp managed to repulse them amid a fierce exchange of fire,” Kenya … Read more