Kenya has deployed hundreds of its security forces to conduct operations to hunt down suspected al-Shabaab perpatrators who attacked a village in Mandera county near the country’s border with Somalia.
According to Northeastern police commander George Seda, the supects who were with AK47 rifles stormed two mosques in Elram villages, where they lectured the locals for hours before leaving the area.
Seda said the assailants divided themselves into two with one group preaching locals praying in mosque A where they asked the locals to war against non-muslims. The other group lectured mosque B in the area.
Seda confirmed that no one was injured in the drama and that two gunmen stood at the entrances of the facilities as the rest preached therein.
“We have deployed more police officers in the area to pursue the militants who escaped towards the border with Somalia,” Seda said.
Al-Shabaab has been carrying out attacks in areas along Kenya’s border with Somalia since 2011. The group killed dozens of non-locals in Mandera, Wajir and Garissa counties.
Al-Shabaab has been claiming of taking revenge on the Kenya government for the deployment of its troops in Somalia.
Kenya has thousands of soldiers working under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia.
