Nairobi, Kenya – Armed militants of Somalia He raid a Kenyan police field near the border, killed six reservists and confiscated weapons, Kenya’s police said on Sunday.
Four other police reservists suffered serious injuries from the attack in a camp in Garissa County by Al Qaida Linked Al-Shabab militants, Police spokesman Michael Muchiri said that more police had been deployed to increase security in the area.
The militants fired and stabbed the reservists, looted the camp and removed their weapons. An unleashed number of militants also died in the attack, he said a lot.
The area near the porous border of Kenia-Somalia that the militants have repeatedly violated.
The United States Embassy in Kenya issued a warning last week so that Americans do not travel to the area due to the risk of attacks and kidnappings.
Last week, a Kenya police officer in a border post in Mandera County was shot dead by armed men suspected of being Somali intelligence officials. Kenya police officers said the attack was a revenge mission after Kenya officials arrested Somali nationals who allegedly planned an attack against an infrastructure project.
Somalia has since 2022 Intensified security operations Aimed at Al-Shabab militants, who control some of the rural areas. A stabilization mission of the African Union composed of troops from different countries is helping Somalia in the fight against Al-Shabab.
