Four people died in Kenya when their vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device suspected to have been planted by al-Shabaab militants on Wednesday morning. The instance occurred just two days after 13 people died in Arabia, Mandera county, in a similar manner also perpetrated by the terror group.
Kenya’s Northeastern Regional police chief confirmed the attack: “It happened at around 11:00 a.m. in Wajir South, not far from the porous Kenya-Somalia border, when the vehicle ferrying foodstuff on the sandy Wajir-Gerile access road ran over an explosive that we believe beyond doubt was set by the Somali al-Shabaab fighters. Unfortunately, all the four occupants have been killed.”
He continued, “We have kicked off an operation to pursue and arrest the suspected terrorists before they cross over to Somalia.”
Northeastern Kenya has been a wetland of terrorism since 2011, when the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) moved into Somalia to fight the al-Shabaab insurgents.