... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Lions of Islam in the northeast of the country, saying that only one died and four were maimed.
Kenyan Police Inspector-General Joseph Boinnet said officers on patrol in Garissa county came under attack late Monday. More officers rushed to the scene in response. The situation is under control, the police said on Tuesday.
Earlier, Fafi sub-county Commissioner Geoffrey Taragon said at least 20 people died in the attack, in which the assailants used rocket-propelled grenades. Al-Shabaab front man Sheikh Abdulaziz Abumusab confirmed the militia carried out the assault on the convoy and cited the same corpse count as Taragon, while Mahat Osman, a local politician who visited the scene, also said he counted as many as 20 bodies.
The festivities in Garissa come less than two months after an al-Shabaab raid on a university in the county left at least 147 people dead. That was the deadliest attack on Kenya since al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998.
Somalia-based al-Shabaab has grabbed credit for a series of attacks in Kenya over the past four years in Dire Revenge for its troop deployment in bordering Somalia in 2011. The Lions of Islam have been waging an insurgency in Somalia since 2006 in a bid to oust the government and establish Islamic law.