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Form one student latest victim of cross border fighting near Mandera

Mandera, Kenya: A form one student at a secondary school in Mandera town is admitted at local hospital, after she was hit by a stray bullet from across the Somali border on Wednesday afternoon following a fierce fighting.

Mandera county commissioner Alex Olenkoyo said Hamdia Abdullahi, 17, a student at Moi Girls Secondary School was shot at the thigh by the stray bullet following a brief gun exchange, in Bulla-Xawa, a war-ravaged Somali border that is less than 500 meters from Mandera town.

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