Three Kenyan officers wounded in a suspected al-Shabaab attack

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Three Kenyan officers wounded in a suspected al-Shabaab attack

Three Kenyan police officers including the acting Officer Commanding Station have been injured in a suspected al-Shabaab attack in Mandera county near the border with Somalia.

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Three Kenyan police officers including the acting Officer Commanding Station have been injured in a suspected al-Shabaab attack in Mandera county near the border with Somalia.

In a statement, the police said a police vehicle from Wargadud police station was heading for Elwak when those on board came under gun attack.

Victims were admitted to local hospital with multiple injuries, police said.

The attack comes less than a day after al-Shabaab attack killed two civilians including a truck driver and his turnboy working on a road in Mandera South near the Kenya-Somalia border.

They also torched the truck before they escaped toward the Kenya-Somalia border.

On Sunday, Kenya’s North Eastern Regional Commissioner Nicodemus Ndalana ordered the police to eliminated al-Shabaab suspects on the spot.

Those in this area are locals. Someone cannot come from Kismayu, hide here and even know the landscape without the knowledge of the locals. There must be youth showing them around,” Ndalana said. "As government, we are not going to have mercy on anybody including al-Shabaab sympathisers. The remedy to tame al-Shabaab is death by bullet.”

Ndalana who is the top representative of the national government in the region stated that the solution to this menace is to come up with a homegrown solution to enable the timely sharing of intelligence.

Mandera 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.