Suspected al Shabaab militants attacked Sangailu area in Garissa County and torched a police reservist's home as reported by Daily Nation on Friday, February 21.
The attack was confirmed by Regional Commissioner Nick Ndalana. The attack is reported to have happened at around 9 p.m on the night of Thursday, February 20.
"They managed to torch down one police reservist house but the attackers were repulsed immediately," Ndalana stated.
However, no casualties have been reported.
Ndalani had earlier informed that the militants had narrowed down on National Police Reservists (NPRs), believing that they were feeding information on their whereabouts to security agencies.
The attack on the police reservist is the fourth of its kind in the month of February alone.
On February 13, a group of suspected Al Shabaab militants burnt down shops and three homes owned by NPR officers in Sangailu.
Police reports indicated that the militia kidnapped a father and his son, and coerced them into identifying the home of reservists in the area. They later released the man identified as 80-year-old Mohammed Bashir Mursal, but his son is still missing.
Early February, another 80-year-old man was brutally murdered by the militia. He was killed as punishment to his son who is an NPR.
The attack comes a day after an armed Al-Shabaab suspect surrendered to security agencies in Mandera South. Salat Hajir Jimale, 23, surrendered at Elwak Police Station in Mandera South on Thursday, February 20.
In another related incident, a Moyale Raha bus headed to Nairobi from Mandera was attacked by suspected Al Shabaab militants and sprayed with bullets.
