A group of suspected Al Shabaab militiamen has killed a police reservist in Mandera County.
Daily Nation was the first to report on Sunday, June 14, that the militants killed the officer at Lafey area.
Area Deputy County Commander John Marete told reporters that the attackers were targeting a communication mast in the area.
The incident occurred on the morning of Sunday with reports indicating that there was a fierce shootout in which two militants were gunned down.
This was just hours after senior regional officers were involved in a helicopter crash in Meru en route to a security meeting in the neighbouring Marsabit County.
On Saturday, June 13, four lives were lost in Kokuto, Sagante-Jaldesa Ward in Marsabit Central in an attack by gunmen.
Marsabit Central Sub-County Police Commander Benjamin Mwanthi confirmed the incident noting that the four were killed while taking their livestock to a water point.
“We lost four more herders in Kokuto area in the hands of cruel gunmen as they were headed to a watering point with their animals,” stated Mwanthi.
On May 18, al-Shabaab militants destroyed another mast at Khorof Kharar in Wajir County in a pre-dawn attack.
Wajir police boss Thomas Ngeywa confirmed at the time that the militants had also unsuccessfully attempted to attack a police station in the area.
Khorof Kharar is located roughly 20 kilometres away from Qarsa, a terror hotspot in Wajir County.
A number of al-Shabaab suspects were said to have crossed the border from Somalia to Kenya in preparation for a number of bombings during the Ramadhan period.
