Two people have been killed while eleven others are nursing gunshot wounds following a terrorist attack today morning targeting travelers along the Lamu-Witu-Garsen Highway at Lango la Shamba near the border of Lamu and Tana River Counties.
According to Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, the daring ambush attack was carried out by approximately 60 terrorists at 7.40 am today morning.
“Treatment of the injured, as well as the search and rescue of missing civilians, is ongoing.” Kindiki noted.
This is despite the ongoing security operation in the area days after scores of others were slaughtered through slitting of their throats in the area by assailants who even made away with their livestock.
Kindiki said that the security personnel from the Nyangoro Forward Operating Base (FOB) who were conducting clearance patrols along the highway responded rapidly and an engagement with the terrorists ensued, scattering them into Boni Forest.
In addition, Kindiki said a combined security operation of elite contingents of the National Police Service (NPS) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) is currently underway in the expansive Lamu county.