UNKNOWN GUNMEN INJURED TWO IN WAJIR GUN ATTACK

BY ADOW JUBAT

Unknown armed shot at a close range and injured two people in Wajir town, North-Eastern region bordering the war-ravaged Somalia, on Wednesday night.

The gun attack was accompanied by in a series of a grenade hurled at the local electricity plant, Wajir County Deputy Commissioner David Rotich told Frontier leaks.

Rotich said that in the first incident at Muqti Market at about 7:05pm one person was shot and injured in the gun attack by the yet to be identified assailants. 

Some few minutes later another person was shot near Old mosque about 500 meters away from the scene of the first incident, he noted.

Rotich said the victims of the terror attacks were rushed to Wajir District hospital and later transferred to Garissa General Hospital for a better medication.

"One of the injured sustained four gun shots and they were transferred to Garissa for specialized treatment", he said.

Evans Mutunga, 26, who is admitted at Garissa General Hospital, said he was walking home from adjacent business premise where he had just bought airtime for his phone before his was confronted with shooting by the daring attackers.

"I was scratching the airtime to reveal the codes while walking when I was shot by assailants who were heading opposite side on the same way. I don't know who shot me or from where the shots came from", he said. 

Rotich said that at about 7:15pm unknown persons hurled a grenade at the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) Wajir plant.

"It appears the assailants were targeting to blow up the fuel tank at the KPLC plant in order to plunge the town into darkness. Fortunately the explosion did not cause much damage", he said adding that no one was injured in the explosion.