Criminal investigation department officer shot dead by unknown assailants in Garissa

Garissa, Kenya: An officer from Criminal investigation department (CID) was on Friday night gun down by unknown assailants at a border town of Liboi, Garissa County in the incursion prone North-Eastern region neighbouring the war-ravaged Somalia.

Confirming the incident, the North eastern regional CID boss Musa Yego said the officer who was attached to Criminal Investigating Unit was shot severally by yet to be known attackers who were armed with firearms, while heading home from a local Mosque where he went for an evening  prayers.