Four General Service Unit (GSU) officers are feared dead following an attack on police vehicles by suspected Al Shabaab militants in Lamu County.
According to reports, the incident is said to have occurred in Milihoi area, Lamu county on the morning of Friday, January 7, 2022.
Images seen by Nairobileo.co.ke showed a wrecked police vehicle suspected to have been hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Here is a video courtesy of Seth Olale:
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LAMU: Police convoy attacked by unknown assailants pic.twitter.com/CxnhxGnn39
— seth olale (@SethOlale) January 7, 2022
The incident comes days after six people were killed on January 2 in Widhu-Majembeni area
During the attack, one of the victims was shot dead, another hacked to death. The four others were burnt to death in their house, police and survivors said.
Another report indicates that those killed were targeted since they were well known for aggressively agitating for land rights of the farmers and other issues of importance in the community.
“The attack was done in a way to appear as a terror attack carried out by Al-Shabaab but from the information received from the ground, this is was not the case,” a police officer who spoke to a local publication said.
According to the officers, the attackers could have been hired to carry out the operation in a manner that it appeared it was done by the AL-Shabaab terror group.
This comes even as extra police officers have been deployed in the area to handle the situation as investigations on the incident continue.
