Al-Shabaab in Kenya



NE Kenya

(Mandera, Kenya) On Friday, Al-Shabaab militants reportedly attacked a village and an Administration Police (AP) station south of Mandera.

Reports indicate that nearly 40 militants armed with AK-47 rifles and bazookas entered the town on Friday night from the Somalia border, in two Land Cruisers and fired at the AP camp forcing the six officers attached to the post to flee after realising they were out numbered.

The Somalia militia group besieged the village for more than three hours. The militants then escaped with a gun the APs abandoned. But before they retreated, they blew up a Safaricom mast at the police station. They also destroyed the police radio communication equipment.

Colonel Cyrus Oguna, spokesman for the Kenya Department of Defense, said that Kenyan troops had "made significant inroads into Al Shabaab-controlled areas in the past week."