Mandera: Anti-stock theft unit officers injured in Shabaab raid
Counties
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Associated Press
| Aug 02, 2022
Three police officers are nursing injuries after suspected Al-Shabaab militants raided their camp in Kotulo, Mandera County on Monday.
The attackers, whose number remains unclear, raided the Elram Anti-Stock Theft Unit camp at around 3pm on August 1.
Police say the outlawed group hurled a bomb material, whose shrapnel injured three officers on the spot.
Fortunately, no fatality was reported.
Police said the suspected Al-Shabaab militants were in possession of six high explosive bomb devices and several machine guns of PKM model.
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Efforts to repulse the attackers lasted thirty (30) minutes on Monday, with police saying the militants were eventually subdued.
A reinforcement was subsequently ordered from the neighbouring Wajir County.
The injured, a chief inspector and two administration police corporals, were airlifted to Nairobi for advanced treatment.
They sustained head, arm, facial, chest, jaw and abdominal injuries, police said in a statement filed at a Kotulo post.