Mandera, Kenya: Suspected Al-Shabaab militia men shot dead one person and injured three others in another daring attack in North-Eastern border town of Mandera on Sunday evening.
The assailants who drove in small car pulled the trigger from an arm stretch at a group of shoppers at Bulla-Mpya suburb in the outskirts of Mandera town Sunday 8.15pm.
Mandera East deputy County commissioner Elvis Korir said unknown number of gunmen believed to be members of terror group Al-Shabaab based in war-torn Somalia raided a shop and indiscriminately shot at customers.
“The assailants opened fire at a group of shoppers, killing one man instantly and critically wounded three others,” Korir told The Standard on phone.
He added, “Preliminary information provided to us indicates that the gunmen drove to the shop in a Toyota Probox vehicle before shooting at the victims from a close range and then escaped toward the less than a kilometer neighboring Somalia using the same car.”
Korir said those injured in the dusk incident were rushed to Mandera referral hospital, where they are undergoing treatment for 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.
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, in which three people - two security officers and a former civic leader - died and eight others seriously wounded.
The terror group has carried series of deadly attacks in Kenya's North-Eastern and other towns including the capital city of Nairobi since Kenya’s military was deployed into Somalia to crush the Al-Qaeda inspired group.
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 constitutional mandate of its military has repeatedly said it will not withdraw its forces from Somalia any time soon.
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