Several police officers are feared dead after the vehicle they were in drove over an improvised explosive device (IED) at Dadaab-Garissa road.
While confirming the incident, Dadaab Deputy Cunty Commissioner Kipkiruii Sile noted that the officers were heading to Garissa at the time of the incident. He said the number of casualties is currently unknown.
“We have reports of a police vehicle hit by an explosive but I am yet to know the exact number of casualties,” Siele told a local publication.
The latest comes barely days after four people were left dead when their vehicle hit an IED in Garissa county.
According to a report, the four were part of five family members travelling from Masalani to Holugho.
The driver of the vehicle is said to have escaped with major injuries.
On January 11, 2023, four engineers attached to the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) died after their vehicle hit an IED at Hailey, Bura East Sub-County, Garissa.
The quartet was part of a convoy that had been dispatched to access the Lamu Port-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET).
“A convoy of KeNHA engineers in three vehicles who were on routine assessment of the LAPSSET Road were attacked by suspected al Shabaab elements who had placed an IED on the Old Lapsset Road which exploded destroying the first vehicle,” a statement by KeNHA read in parts.
Garissa County Commissioner Boaz Cheruitich who confirmed the incident assured residents that the Security Committee had deployed a contingent of police officers to hunt down the suspects and bring them to book.
“We want to appeal to the local people around that area to be calm as we pursue the criminals. The government will continue with the sustained operation to flush them out. We also want to assure the public that we will arrest them to face the law and bring calm back in the area,” Cherutich said on Wednesday, January 11,” the statement added.
