Seven people are killed in two separate incidents as vehicles run over improvised explosives in northeast Kenya, authorities say
Al Shabab has been fighting for more than a decade to topple Somalia's central government. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Seven people were killed in two separate incidents when vehicles ran over improvised explosives in northeast Kenya, with police saying in one of the cases that they suspected militants of Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab were responsible. Four died in the first incident late on Tuesday when a vehicle was escorting a convoy of buses between the towns of Banisa and Mandera.
Another security team from Banisa was attacked when it responded."Upon reaching the scene, they were attacked by suspected Al Shabab fighters," Mandera police station said in a report late on Tuesday.
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