Two policemen are missing after Somali militant group Al Shabaab attacked a police base in northeastern Kenya early on Thursday, a police spokesman said, the latest in a string of cross-border raids by the Shabaab militia.
Fighters in two Landcruisers attacked the patrol base “but the officers in the camp managed to repulse them amid (a) fierce exchange of fire,” said a statement from police spokesman George Kinoti.
One policeman was wounded and two were missing, he said, adding that one attacker was killed.
Al Shabaab claimed the attack in Kenya’s Garissa County.
“We attacked a police station in a small town near Garissa last night,” Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told reporters by phone.
“Over 50 terrorists attacked the police patrol base in two Land Cruisers but the officers in the camp managed to repulse them amid a fierce exchange of fire,” Kenya police spokesman George Kinoti said in a statement.