The Kenya National Police force has confirmed that twenty militants had been killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack near the Country’s Somalia border.
The Kenya Police has also confirmed that eight officers got injured in the attack.
In a tweet by the National Police Service, a special unit of police officers came under “heavy” fire in an ambush on Wednesday while patrolling in Mandera, a county in northern Kenya that shares an extensive frontier with Somalia.
SUSPECTED TERRORIST ATTACK IN MANDERA COUNTY.
Police in Mandera are investigating a suspected Al Shabaab terrorist attack following an ambush on our
Special Operations Group (SOG) team on July 5, 2023, at Ogorwen Location within Mandera County. pic.twitter.com/l3eAi14sjd— National Police Service-Kenya (@NPSOfficial_KE) July 6, 2023Did you read this?
This comes just a day after the Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki announced that the government had temporarily suspended the reopening of the Kenya- Somalia border after several deadly attacks on its soil blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists.
On June 13, an improvised explosive device caused the deaths of eight Kenyan police officers in Garissa, a county in the country's east that borders Somalia.
Five individuals had their throats slashed on June 24 during an incident in Lamu, another bordering county. Some were executed by beheading.
