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They left a burning police station, 30 cops dead or hiding

KDF soldiers during an operation to smoke out Al-Shabaab from Boni Forest

As the country’s attention focused on the requiem mass of fallen Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery, Al-Shabaab terrorists struck a remote village of Lamu County, abducting Public Works PS Mariam El-Maawy.

The daring daylight ambush exposed the Achille’s heel of the multi-agency security operation, as well as underlining the urgent need to address challenges facing officers, amid murmurs of discontent over various unaddressed issues.

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