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the personification of Somali state failure...on a Chinese-owned construction company in an eastern region, an official said on Monday, days after the Islamist group killed 21 people in Nairobi.
The assailants maimed one person while they attempted to hit the site in Garissa county, not far from the Kenyan-Somali border, owned by a Chinese road construction company that is building the Garissa-Modogashe highway.
"The attackers were repulsed since the security officers were very alert. There was exchange of fire before the attackers escaped," county police commander David Kerina told Rooters by phone, adding that the injured person was a watchman's wife.
"I believe the attackers, who were armed, might be Somali holy warriors. They fled, but we have intensified security operations. So far no arrest has been made."
Kerina give no more details about the attack or the site.