The Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) officers and other multi-agency security personnel have arrested one suspect in connection to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack targeting a matatu the left seven dead and scores injured along the Mandela-Arabia highway earlier today.
Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has said efforts to pacify the area are ongoing.
The passenger van was blown up at Hargrasu area by a planted IED.
The suspect is in custody is helping the officers with investigations.
At least seven people have been killed and 13 others injured at after a matatu they were traveling in ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mandera, northern Kenya, today morning.
The 14-seater public service vehicles plying the Mandera Arabia road had left the Arabia township at about 6am before running over the explosive less than 8 kilometres to Mandera town at around 7am.
County Director of Health Services Abdi Maalim said the Mandera County Referral Hospital received seven bodies from the scene and 13 injured patients, with four in critical condition.
The thirteen injured patients “are receiving treatment at the moment,” he said.
