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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the personification of Somali state failure..."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."