At least three police officers were Monday morning killed when their vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Welmereer in Garissa County.
Eight other officers from the Special Operations Group were injured in the 3 am incident, police said.
The bomb had been set on the roadside in Kiwanja area and the police vehicle was on the move when the incident happened.
This is the latest such incident to target the security officers in the area which have now left 11 dead in less than a week.
The injured were evacuated to hospitals in Garissa as the terrorists behind the attack vanished into a bush.
On Wednesday, at least eight members of the elite police unit SOG died in an ambush by al-Shabaab terrorists at Ogorwen Location within Mandera County.
The officers succumbed to the injuries after being hit by a grenade in an ambush.
Police killed at least 20 al-Shabaab militants in the clash.
SOG is a specialized group of police involved in operations against terrorists along the main border with Somalia.
A submachine gun and an RPG were among the items recovered at the scene.
This came as Kenyan security ramped up operations against the terror group around the border to push out terror cells operating there.
The recent attacks have forced the government to suspend plans to reopen the Kenya-Somalia border.
The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Francis Ogolla toured Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) camps and Forward Operating Bases in the North Eastern region as part of morale boosting amid a new operation against al Shabaab terrorists.
Gen Ogolla visited Mandera, El Wak, Modika, and Gherille in a bid to engage the troops as well as assess their mission readiness on Sunday, officials said.
During the tour, he spoke with officers and soldiers stationed in the respective areas and made an address to the troops.
He made the tour amid ongoing joint operations across the border in Somalia where local troops together with KDF and USA are bombarding the terror cells.
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Officials said Ethiopian troops have also started an operation from their border point clearing the cells in a new push.
The operation named “Operation Thunder Strike” inserted commandos in the Hagar area, captured and destroyed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) factory and killed five terrorists including three Kenyans and two Ethiopians in the Sunday exercise.
At least 40 other al Shabaab terrorists had earlier on Sunday been killed in Welmarow area, a town 40 kilometres from Afmadow in the Lower Jubba region of Somalia.
Officials said five others, who included three Kenyans, were arrested alive in the operation.
The operation involved troops from Somalia, Kenya and the United States Military Special Operations.
The area borders the Kenya-Somalia border, which the terrorists usually breach.
The attack, which occurred at dawn, targeted a hideout where the terrorists were gathering and a weapons depot belonging to al Shabaab.
