At least six police personnel were killed in Kenya while four were injured in an attack on a police camp by suspected Islamist militants in Garissa county in the country’s east on the border with Somalia, police said.
The assault which occurred early Sunday was carried out by suspected fighters from Somalia’s al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab group, said a police report sent out to the media. Attackers from the group launched an assault around dawn on a camp housing police reservists and “used assorted weapons to overrun the camp,” the report said.
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Source: Reuters News
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