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| Kenya Refugee Camp Explosion Kills Policeman |
| 2011-12-06 |
| [An Nahar] A policeman was killed and three people maimed in an kaboom in Dadaab refugee camp Monday, the latest in a spate of grenade and landmine attacks in Kenya's border regions with Somalia. "One person has been killed in the kaboom, three injured," said Kenya Red Thingy spokesperson Nelly Muluka, adding that the blast was in the Ifo II section of Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp complex. "It is yet to be known if it was a landmine or a grenade that was hurled at the car," said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . "A policeman has been killed and the others have been injured." Kenyan officials blame Somali Islamist Shebab hard boyz or their sympathizers for a series of recent shootings and bombings, although armed bandidos also operate in the border areas. Gunmen seized two Spaniards working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) from Dadaab in October and are thought to have taken them to Somalia. The kidnapping of the Spaniards was one of the incidents that spurred Kenya to send troops into Somalia to fight the al-Qaeda-linked Shebab in mid-October. Regional armies are now pushing against Shebab positions in Somalia, with Kenyan forces in the south, Ugandan and Burundian African Union forces in Mogadishu, and Ethiopian troops in the west. |
| Posted by:Fred |