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7 Kenyan police officers, 1 civilian killed in bombing in south; 4 police, 1 civilian killed in north
[Ynet] Seven Kenyan coppers and a civilian died Wednesday when their armored personnel vehicle ran over an improvised bomb in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked Death Eater group al-Shabaab...  the personification of Somali state failure...A police report seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said the vehicle with the Rural Patrol Border Unit in Mangai in southern Kenya had been going to refuel when the bomb went kaboom!. Kenyan army personnel tried to rescue the officers and came under fire from suspected al-Shabaab Death Eaters, the report said. Seven coppers were in the vehicle, but only five bodies were found, the report said. Three bodies were later recovered in the area, the report said. Al-Shabaab claimed killing seven officers in the incident, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Death Eater groups. Roadside bomb targeting police kills five in Kenya's north coast [Ynet] Four coppers and a civilian were killed on Wednesday and two more police are missing after their truck hit a landmine on a road along Kenya's northern coast, a police report said. The vehicle was heading towards Mokowe, near the popular island resort of Lamu, according to the report, filed at Kiunga cop shoppe in Lamu. "KDF (Kenya Defence Forces) officers responded and when they reached the scene they found four bodies in uniform and another body in civilian clothes," the report said. Two more officers who were riding in the truck have not been accounted for. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-01 |
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