Kenya has
rejected claims by the Somalia-based al-Shabab group that it ambushed
and killed more than 25 Kenyan police officers in the country’s
northeast.
Al-Shabab has carried out several attacks in Kenya in retaliation over Kenya’s military involvement in Somalia.
“The number of casualty we have is just one,” Mwenda Njoka, Kenyan interior ministry spokesperson, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
“It is just a propaganda. We have accounted for all the officers who were in that operation.”
Al-Shabab
claimed through a military spokesperson on Tuesday that it killed the
police officers in the village of Yumbis, 70km north of Garissa.
Reuters news
agency cited Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the spokesperson, as saying
that 20 officers were killed when al-Shabab fighters ambushed them on
Monday night, while more officers were killed when a police vehicle hit a
landmine planted by the fighters.
“We took all
their weapons. There were some Kenyan forces that escaped in the course
of the ambush fighting,” he said, adding that five police vehcles had
been burnt.
Police
patrolling between Garissa and the Dadaab refugee camp hit an
improvised explosive device, or IED; and a second group of officers
reacting to a distress call from the first attack then came under fire.
Some of the survivors fled the scene and arrived in a nearby refugee camp, our correspondent added.
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