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Mandera Police Kill Two KDF Soldiers In Friendly Fire
[RADIOSHABELLE] Two soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a shootout with AP officers at Sheikh Barrow in Mandera County.Local administrators said the Kenya Defence Forces troops were felled by friendly fire. "The APs returned fire after coming under attack by the soldiers who mistook them for bandidos. They had been having lunch at their camp when the incident took place," one said. Six other officers were airlifted to Nairobi with injuries. The bodies were also transported to the city by air. The Death Eaters earlier tried to attack a General Service Unit camp in the area but were repulsed. KDF set up bases in the area to help flush out al-Shabaab ...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...terrorists, who have seriously injured and killed many since Kenya joined the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia in 2011. Mandera, Lamu, Mombasa, and Garissa are among counties that have borne the brunt of the Death Eaters’ attacks. On January 2, four security officers were killed in a suspected al-Shabaab attack in Mandera. Two police reservists and an AP died at the scene while another KPR died while being rushed to the hospital. A senior police officer said the attackers waylaid the cops along Elwak ‐ Kitulo road. President Uhuru Kenyatta declared Kenya will take part in the peacekeeping mission until Somalia stabilizes. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-16 |
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