{"id":21885,"date":"2015-12-15T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mandera-police-foil-al-shabaab-attack-on-buses\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T11:25:29","slug":"mandera-police-foil-al-shabaab-attack-on-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mandera-police-foil-al-shabaab-attack-on-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Mandera police foil Al-Shabaab attack on buses"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Police in Mandera on Tuesday foiled a planned Al-Shabaab attack targeting two passenger buses heading to the town.}<\/p>\n

County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia said 12 police officers were escorting the buses from Elwak through Wargadud location when they were ambushed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is true there was an attack on a convoy of two buses coming from Elwak at Kona area, where our officers engaged suspected terrorists in a fire exchange but none of them was injured,\u201d said Mr Shisia.<\/p>\n

He said it was not an ordinary attack because the attackers targeted security agents after leaving the two buses to pass through their trap.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have cordoned off the area and our security agents are pursuing the attackers. We believe something positive will come out,\u201d said Mr Shisia.<\/p>\n

He said the security team in Mandera was following up allegations that a group of between 10 to 15 armed men took hostage a village in Wargadud Ward on Sunday and lectured villagers before disappearing into the bushes.<\/p>\n

The incident happened hours after a military convoy was attacked, leaving one Kenya Defence Forces officer dead and two injured.<\/p>\n

AL-SHABAAB’S FORMER COOK<\/p>\n

The county commissioner attributed the increased attacks on security agents to the mysterious killing of Mrs Isnina Musa, who was declared by the government as a former cook for the terror group.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomalia security agents have left a certain corridor open due to challenges they are facing back there and it has created an opening for Al-Shabaab … to get easy access into Kenya but we are sealing off the Elwak point,\u201d said Mr Shisia.<\/p>\n

Wargadud Ward Representative Ahmed Ibrahim told Nation.co.ke a group of 15 to 20 armed men arrived in Buke village on Sunday and held residents hostage for two hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cArmed terrorists arrived in the village at 3pm on Sunday, hoisted a flag and lectured the villagers before returning into the bush at around 5pm, leaving a massage that no one should inform the government of their presence,\u201d said Mr Ibrahim.<\/p>\n

Speaking from the Red Sea Hotel in Mandera town, he said most of the government administrators, including chiefs and their assistants, had fled the ward fearing for their lives.<\/p>\n

Mr Shisia said security agents had been deployed along the border to combat the increasing terror incidents.<\/p>\n

The government has been providing armed police escorts to public service vehicles in and out of Mandera town since last November, when Al-Shabaab terrorists hijacked a Nairobi-bound bus and killed 28 people.<\/p>\n

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