Kenyan hunt for Al-Shabaab group which killed four police officers

Kenyan police have intensified a major manhunt for a heavily armed Al-Shabaab force which attacked a police post in north east Kenya on Friday (August 16). The attackers who apparently numbered around fourty in all, killed four police officers and burned down a security camp near the border with Somalia.

A fifth officer managed to escape. The County Commissioner said security officers from the Rapid Deployment Unit and other police units had been deployed in the area and were pursuing the group which was said to fleeing towards the border.

The Commissioner said the attackers managed to loot the Administration Police Post and seize number of guns and ammunition before destroying it. In May, four security officers and two civilians were killed in a similar border incursion by Al-Shabaab fighters, who targeted the Abdi Sugow Administration police camp in Dadaab district

Source: mfa.gov.et