{"id":34786,"date":"2017-05-25T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-2-aps-dead-in-new-landmine-attack-in-liboi\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:20:10","slug":"kenya-2-aps-dead-in-new-landmine-attack-in-liboi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-2-aps-dead-in-new-landmine-attack-in-liboi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:2 APs dead in new landmine attack in Liboi, Garissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Two police officers died on Thursday morning after their vehicle ran over a landmine on the Malelei-Kulan road in Liboi, Garissa County.}<\/p>\n<p>Police sources told the Nation that two other officers in the vehicle were injured, one critically, and have been rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>{{Restive }} <\/p>\n<p>North Eastern Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh told reporters by midday that officials were yet to get a full report on the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths come barely a day after four Administration Police officers were killed in a similar attack near the Kulan Dam in Liboi.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Kenya&#8217;s eastern border with Somalia is notoriously restive and prone to attacks staged by Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks come days after police warned of increased terror activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabaab militants &#8220;are dispatching operatives into parts of north eastern region to lay IEDs along routes used by our security patrols in efforts to frustrate our security operations at the border areas,&#8221; the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>{{Warning }} <\/p>\n<p>Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet warned that some members of the terrorist group had sneaked into the country and were planning attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IGP Boinnet said the terror group was behind a series of attacks, including a recent attack in Mandera where a chief was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP, however, said police were on high alert and asked the public to be vigilant and report suspicious people to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The Shabaab is fighting to overthrow the internationally backed government in Mogadishu but began attacking Kenya in 2011 after Nairobi ordered its troops into Somalia to fight the militants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20338 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/libo.jpg\" alt=\"The police vehicle that ran over a landmine in Liboi, Garissa County, on May 25, killing two officers. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Two police officers died on Thursday morning after their vehicle ran over a landmine on the Malelei-Kulan road in Liboi, Garissa County.} Police sources told the Nation that two other officers in the vehicle were injured, one critically, and have been rushed to hospital. {{Restive }} North Eastern Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh told reporters by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}