The group continues to make cross-border raids to strain Kenya to withdraw its forces from the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a police automobile in japanese Kenya, killing two officers and one civilian, police and the armed group mentioned.
The truck was travelling from Hayley Lapsset camp to Garissa city, about 120km (75 miles) from the Somali border, when it hit an explosive gadget, in line with a police assertion on Wednesday.
The fighters then fired a rocket-propelled grenade on the automobile and engaged in a heavy firefight which killed the victims, police mentioned.
Al-Shabab’s Radio Andalus mentioned in a broadcast their gunmen killed two Kenyan safety drive members and injured a number of others within the assault.
The group killed 166 individuals at Garissa College in 2015, and 67 at a mall in Nairobi in 2013, however the frequency and severity of al-Shabab assaults in Kenya have decreased in recent times.
The al-Qaeda-linked group continues to make cross-border raids to strain Kenya into withdrawing its forces from the African Union-mandated peacekeeping drive in Somalia.
Pictures shared by police confirmed a burned-out truck and a physique mendacity within the sand. Police mentioned that they had little data on the whereabouts of different cops travelling within the automobile.
Al-Shabab has been underneath strain in Somalia since August when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud started an offensive towards them, supported by the USA, the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and allied native militias.
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