BY
ADOW JUBAT
Suspected al-Shabaab militia killed one person and
injured three others in another attack in North-Eastern border town of Mandera on
Sunday evening.
The assailants who drove in small car pull their gun
trigger from an arm stretch at a group of shoppers buying items at a shot at
Bulla-Mpya suburb on the outskirts of Mandera town at 8.15 pm East Africa time.
Confirming the incident the Mandera East deputy
County commissioner Elvis Korir said unknown number of gun men believed to
be members of terror group al-Shabaab based in adjacent war-torn Somalia raided a
shop with indiscriminate shot outs.
“The assailants open fire at a group of shoppers
killing one man instantly, while at the same time critically injuring three others”,
He said speaking on the incident on phone from Mandera Frontier Leaks.
He added “Preliminary information provided to us
indicates that the gun men drove in a probox vehicle near to the shop before
starting shooting the victims from a close range and then escaped toward the less than a kilometer neighboring Somalia using the
same car”,
This is the latest terror attack in Mandera, which comes
barely two days after a deadly attack on a convoy of Mandera Governor Ali Roba, which
left three people- two security officers and a former civic leader dead and
eight other seriously wounded.
The
Islamist group has carried series of deadly
attacks in Kenya’s North-Eastern and other towns including the capital
city of Nairobi since the East African country sent its military into
Somalia
to crush the Al-Qaeda inspired group, which has been blamed by the
Kenyan authorities of
been behind spates of kidnapping of expatriate aid working in the
sprawling refugee camps in the incursion prone Northern region and
tourists in the coastal archipelago towns of Mombasa and Lamu.
Al-Shabaab
has vowed to press on with its deadly attacks on Kenya’s strategic
interests until the country surrenders by pulling out from Somalia;
however,
Kenya’s leadership who has the constitutionally mandate of the its
military pull out has repeatedly said it will not withdraw its forces
from
Somalia any time soon.
Korir said those injured in the dusk incident were rushed to Mandera referral
hospital, where they are undergoing treatment for the gun wounds sustained in
the terror attack.
“Our combined security officers are combing the area
for the escaping assailants and we are hoping to catch up with them before they
managed to cross the porous border into Somalia”, He noted.
The deputy county commissioner said the
investigations on the motives of the attacks and the identity of the attackers
is on ongoing since the attacks just happened some few hours ago.
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