Sunday, 30 November 2014

ONE INJURED IN GARISSA HAND GRENADE ATTACK




BY ADOW JUBAT

One person was slightly injured after assailants’ hurled explosive at a group of people walking along Bulla power areas in Garissa town at 8.30 pm on Sunday evening.

Confirming the incident, the North-Eastern region criminal investigating officers Musa Yego said, unknown armed men hurled an explosion at three men who were heading Bulla Power from the town after retiring from their day work.

“There were two civilians who were heading toward their homes in Bulla-Power before they were met by two young men dressed in Kikio (shawl). The assailants removed explosive devices from their waist and hurled at the two who were heading on the opposite direction” he said.

The victims got suspicious of the two men whom they met on the road, after one of them began unfolding his Kikio to remove something from his waist causing them to stop.

He added “The victims fears were immediately confirmed after the one of the assailants pelted an explosive believed to be a hand grenade at the two men, but the explosion missed its target by a whisker, after the two civilians took a quick dive onto the ground”, 

Yego said one of the two men attacked sustained minor injury after shrapnel hit him on the right arm, while his colleague was unscathed.

The regional CID boss said, the assailants were two most wanted criminals who are behind the spate of hit and run explosions attacks in the town adding that the security officers has been hunting them for months now.
“We appeal to the members of the public to assist our officers in apprehending the two young men who are terrorizing the residents of the town with indiscriminate hand grenade attacks against civilians” 

He said the days of the two criminals, were numbered as the security personnel were tracing them round the clock.

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