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Counting losses: Wargadud police station bears brunt of Al-Shabaab attack

Torched vehicle at Wargadud police camp in Mandera South. [Ibrahim Adan Ali, Standard]

Police officers stationed at Wargadud police camp in Mandera South are counting losses following Friday's terror attack by suspected Al-Shabaab militants.

The militants, who were reportedly armed with rocket-propelled grenades, PK machine guns and other assorted weapons, killed two police officers and a teacher, destroyed communications towers and carjacked a police vehicle.

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