Five people, including a police constable, sustained varying injuries on Wednesday after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at Heritage Hotel in Mandera County, in a suspected terror attack.
Police say the IED was placed on one of the hotel’s perimeter walls by an unidentified suspect who left the scene immediately after.
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Source: Citizen Digital News
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