Gunmen suspected of being fighters from Somalia’s Al Shabaab militant group burst into a government official’s house in northeast Kenya and shot him dead late on Monday, police said.
The four attackers in military fatigues struck in Mandera county, a territory near Somalia’s border that has seen a string of Al Shabaab raids in recent years.
“We suspect the attackers are militants since after the raid they escaped towards Somalia,” Edward Mwamburi, the head of the northeastern regional police force, told reporters by phone.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Attack.