Bodies of two people who were reported missing in Tarbaj, Wajir County a few days ago have been found in a shallow grave.
The two are among four people who were reportedly picked up by security officers from their shops in Konton and Khorof Kharar areas in an ongoing operation in parts of Tarbaj and Wajir East sub-counties.
The two have been identified as Adan Debar Abdi and Abdikadir Jimaale.
Security officers intensified hunt to Al-Shabaab militants after eight police officers were killed in Bojigaras earlier this month.
The attackers made away with assault rifles and ammunition belonging to the slain officers.
Witnesses said the two bodies were found by herders in a shallow grave at the same location where the improvised explosive device went off between Kutulo and Bojigaras, five days after they were reported missing.
The bodies were badly mutilated and were found with missing parts and bore signs of torture.
The bodies were removed to Wajir Referral Hospital mortuary where a postmortem was conducted before they were buried.
A section of residents held prayers for the victims at Wajir Qorahey grounds before burying them at Ahmed Liban Cemetery.
Their death brings the number of people allegedly killed by the security officers to three after a 50-year-old man was killed in Kutulo AP camp last week.
Addressing journalists, Wajir East MP Rashid Kassim expressed fears of the return of extrajudicial killings in the county and blamed the security forces for the act.
‘’Three days ago we demanded for them to be arraigned in court as we were fearing for their lives and here they are lying in body bags,” Mr Kassim said.
