Three people were on Monday morning killed after a vehicle they were travelling in hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Elwak, Mandera County.
The 10 am attack left two others nursing serious injuries and were rushed to hospital for treatment.
The group was headed to work when the device exploded.
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“The victims have been clearing a road along the security wall and they were hit by what we suspect to be an improvised explosive device,” Mandera South Deputy County Commissioner Paul Kemei divulged.
Kimei noted that the explosive must have been planted early in the morning by Al-Shabaab militants.
Usually, the team is escorted to the site but the police boss mentioned that security officers did not accompany them on Monday.
“All teams working on the wall have security provided but it remains unclear how this team went on site without security officers,” he wondered.
He added that investigations had commenced in order to establish why the contractor and his team went to the site unaccompanied.
In 2015, the national government announced the plan to build a security wall along Kenya-Somalia border to wade off militants.
The incident adds on to several others of insecurity that have hit Mandera county in the recent past.
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