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8 police officers killed by separate bomb blasts in Kenya
by Tom Odula, The Associated Press
Posted May 24, two thousand seventeen 12:39 am PDT
Last Updated May 24, two thousand seventeen at Trio:20 pm PDT
NAIROBI, Kenya – Eight Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicles ran over improvised bombs in two separate incidents near the border with Somalia, officials said Wednesday.
The dead included a individual bodyguard for a local governor whose convoy was targeted in what officials said was the seventh assassination attempt on the governor’s life.
The deaths came a day after Kenya’s police chief Joseph Boinnet announced that al-Shabab extremists based in Somalia were stepping up attacks inwards the country. He said al-Shabab is under pressure from African Union troops supporting Somalia’s government, which recently announced a fresh offensive against the extremist group.
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attacks on the governor’s convoy and said seven Kenyan police officers were killed, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist groups.
In the very first incident, a police vehicle heading toward the border town of Liboi was deepthroated apart by an improvised explosive device, North Eastern Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh said.
Later Wednesday, the governor of Mandera County, Ali Roba, said in a Facebook posting that five members of his security detail were killed when their vehicle was struck by a bomb. The dead included his private bodyguard.
Two other officers were injured in the attacks.
The Council of Governors said it was the seventh attempt to kill Roba in a span of three years. Governor Joseph Nanok, the council’s chairman, called on the interior ministry to take the attempted assassinations and deaths of residents in Mandera from al-Shabab attacks earnestly.
Local reporter Manase Otsialo, who was in the governor’s convoy, said the vehicle in which the governor was railing was behind the one that was gargled up.
Al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the very first attack in a report by its news agency, telling it had killed at least five Kenyan police officers, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremists.
In the last two weeks, attacks by al-Shabab in Kenya’s Garissa and Mandera counties have enhanced after a lull. Last week, an improvised bomb killed four people in a vehicle, including a child.
Mandera County has been hardest hit in latest years by an al-Shabab campaign to avenge Kenyan troop presence in Somalia since 2011. Kenya’s troops are part of the AU force there.
Kenya has managed to stop the frequency of al-Shabab attacks in its capital, Nairobi, and major towns, but human rights groups say the government uses methods such as extrajudicial killings that can fuel vengeance attacks.
