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Askari watano wa Jeshi la Polisi wameuawa katika shambulio lililotekelezwa na Wapiganaji wa Al Shabaab waliokuwa wakiendelea na zoezi la kuimarisha ulinzi katika Kaunti ya Mandera.
Mapaka sasa maafisa kadhaa wa vikosi vya usalama wameuawa katika maeneo kadhaa ndani ya miezi michache.
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Five Kenyan policemen were killed in an attack on their vehicle in the northeast county of Mandera near the border with Somalia late on Tuesday, a government official in the area said.
Dozens of Kenyan security personnel have been killed in recent months in the remote lands near the border with Somalia, in raids by the al Shabaab Islamist militants from Somalia.
Daniel Bundotich, the deputy county commissioner for Mandera South, said those killed included three police reservists, local civilians who usually assist the police and are assigned uniforms and arms.
“The militants also set on fire a police lorry … The police officers were on patrol along Elwak-Kutolo when they were ambushed,” he told Reuters.
Al Shabaab has also launched other attacks in Kenya targeting civilians, in revenge for Kenya moving its troops into Somalia in late 2011.
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