Suspected members of the al Shabaab terror group reportedly abducted five chiefs in Mandera County on Monday.
According to Mandera South Police Commander Julius Njeru, the five administrators were travelling from Wargadud to Elwak Town for official duty.
The chiefs were from the administrative units of Wargadud East, Qurahmudow, and Chachabole and were aboard a vehicle at the time of the incident.
The vehicle ferrying the chiefs to Elwak was hijacked between Bamba Owla and Ires Suki in Mandera South.
Kenya’s security multi-agency teams operating under the Special Operations Group(SOG) quick response unit encountered an IED attack while responding to the incident.
In 2017, suspected gunmen killed a senior chief and abducted two police reservists from the area with a similar incident having been reported in Elwak a week earlier, in the same year.
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