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Seven Kenyan police, civilian killed by IED
[SHABELLENEWS] Seven coppers and a civilian were killed when an armoured vehicle drove over a roadside kaboom in southeastern Kenya, a week after 14 others died in similar attacks claimed by Shabaab Islamists, a police source said today."It’s unfortunate, we lost all the seven officers who were in the vehicle," a police brass hat in the coastal Lamu district near the Somali border, told AFP. "All the bodies were found scattered in the thicket possibly thrown out on impact." A police report seen by AFP noted that "seven administration coppers and one civilian died" as a result of the kaboom. It was not clear whether the civilian was in or near the vehicle at the time of the kaboom. Last week 14 officers were killed in three separate blasts involving roadside kabooms in different regions of northeastern Kenya along the border with Somalia. The Shabaab, a Somali-led jihadist group linked to al- Qaeda, grabbed credit for those attacks. Inspector General Joseph Boinnet of the Kenyan police warned that more such attacks were likely during the holy month of Ramadan. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-02 |
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