At least two police officers and a teacher were Friday, July 14 killed when al Shabaab terrorists overran Wargadud police station in Mandera County, police said.
The terrorists also attacked and destroyed communication masts in the town affecting communication in general.
The gang stole a police landcruiser and an unknown amount of ammunition from the station.
These may be used again to attack Kenyans, officials said.
This is after they overran the station forcing most of the officers who were present to scamper for their safety.
The station is in Elwak, which is more than 50 kilometers away from the porous Kenya-Somalia border.
Locals and police said the attack happened Friday at dawn.
A military response team that tried to intervene was attacked with bombs at their camp in Elwak.
The teacher who was killed in a non-local, police said.
The attack came hours after the terrorists overran and took control of a camp that had been handed over by the Kenya Defence Forces troops in Somalia in Geriley, not far from El-Wak, in the Gedo region of Somalia on Thursday.
Kenyan troops launched a counter-operation and killed five terrorists who were in a technical vehicle.
In the Elele area, Mandera, military’s special forces destroyed an al Shabaab camp that they had assembled to use for more attacks, officials said.
In Lamu, one suspected terrorist was killed by multi-agency teams in an operation.
There has been a renewed operation targeting the terror group operating along the main Kenya-Somalia border.
This is after their attacks in the past months left more than 30 people dead and many wounded.
On Thursday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki visited nearly two dozen police officers who are recuperating in various hospitals in Nairobi after sustaining injuries in the line of duty and said the security agencies had killed more than 150 terrorists in the past months.
“Despite the setback of death and injury of a few of our frontline security officers, we have made tremendous pushback in the process of which our gallant and patriotic officers have neutralized over 150 terrorists who have been launching attacks on civilians and security agencies in the forward operating bases in North Eastern and Upper Coast regions,” he said.
The recent attacks have forced the government to suspend plans to reopen the Kenya-Somalia border.
“The Government will delay the planned reopening of Kenya-Somalia border points until we conclusively deal with the recent spate of terror attacks and cross-border crime.”
“We have postponed the plans to reopen the main borders in Mandera, Wajir, here Liboi, and Kiunga due to the increased attacks by the terrorists in the past months.
We will deal with them first then continue with the plans,” he said.
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