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Al Shabaab fighters have attacked a police vehicle in eastern Kenya, killing two officers and one civilian, police and the armed group said.

Riot police officers control unaccredited people as they secure the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission National tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya August 14, 2022.Riot police officers control unaccredited people as they secure the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission National tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya August 14, 2022.

The militants then fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the vehicle and engaged in a heavy firefight which took the lives of the victims, police said.Radio Andalus said in a broadcast their gunmen killed two Kenyan security forces and injured several others in the attack. The al Qaeda franchise continues to make cross-border raids as part of its campaign to pressure Kenya into withdrawing its forces from Somalia, who make up part of the African-Union-mandated peacekeeping force ATMIS.

 

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