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2017-05-26 Africa Horn

Police officers killed by separate bomb blasts in Kenya

[SHABELLENEWS] Eight Kenyan security officers were killed in two separate roadside kaboomings in eastern Kenya on Wednesday, bigwigs said, and Somali Islamist snuffies claimed both attacks.

In Mandera, in the extreme northeast of Kenya, a governor’s convoy was blown up by what the Kenyan Red Thingy said appeared to have been a landmine. The area is a frequent target of the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab
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"Unfortunately I lost five of my security officers including my personal bodyguard in an attack on my convoy," Mandera Governor Ali Roba said in a Facebook post.

Al-Shabaab claimed both that attack and an earlier one further south in Liboi, also close to the border.

There, three coppers were killed when their truck hit an improvised bomb (IED), North Eastern regional commissioner Mohamud Ali Saleh told Rooters.

"All the dead officers are from one work station," he said. "From past incidences, it is easy to see that even this one is the work of our enemy, al-Shabaab. They plant these IEDs to target our security people."

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