Three suspected Al-Shabaab militants were killed on Friday night by Kenyan security forces during an attack on Yumbis Border Patrol Unit camp in Fafi, Garissa county near the Kenya-Somalia border.
The National Police Service confirmed that all police officers were safe and the surviving attackers were being pursued by a team of security agencies.
“Our officers effectively engaged them and with quick reinforcement from Special Forces, the attackers were repulsed,” National Police Service spokesman Charles Owino said in a statement.
The police say they remain on high alert to suppress and counter Al-Shabaab’s heightened activity along Kenya’s border with Somalia.
Last week, at least 12 Kenyan police officers were killed while another escaped with serious injuries after a vehicle they were traveling in was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) between Riba and Konton villages in Wajir county along the border with Somalia.
Two days before that suspected militants stormed a local centre and abducted three police reservists in the same location.
Kenya’s military has occupied part of southern Somalia along the border since 2011. The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia, took control of the territory from Al-Shabaab jihadists following a series of kidnappings on Kenyan territory.
In April this year, suspected Al-Shabaab militants kidnapped two Cuban doctors and killed their police escort officer in Mandera in northeastern Kenya.
Al Shabaab has been fighting the United Nations-backed Somali government and its partners in an attempt to impose strict Islamic law.
