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Kenya: Suspected al-Shabab attack on police station kills 1
[Ynet] An official says a policeman has been killed after suspected Islamic Death Eaters attacked a cop shoppe in the northern Kenyan county of Mandera.North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Saleh said Thursday al-Shabaab ...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...are suspected in the attack on Lafey cop shoppe. Two vehicles were burnt in the early morning attack. The incident comes a day after three people died in a suspected al-Shabaab attack in southern Kenya and days before Tuesday's national elections. al-Shabaab has threatened to disrupt the elections. Al-Shabaab in recent weeks has stepped up deadly attacks in Kenya's border counties of Lamu and Mandera. The group has carried out more than 100 attacks inside Kenya, calling it retribution for the East African nation's deployment of troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the Death Eaters. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-04 |
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