Roadside blast kills 2 Kenyan police officers in border region

Two police officers were killed and four others seriously wounded in a roadside blast early Monday in Garissa County, northeast Kenya, Report informs referring to Xinhua.

The police said the officers from the elite paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) were killed when the vehicle in which they were traveling hit an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Dadaab-Garissa road.

"Suspected al-Shabab planted remote-controlled IEDs which hit one vehicle transporting GSU officers who were going for supervision for the Kenya national examination," the police said in a security report.

The police said a search was conducted in the area, which borders Somalia, but failed to catch the perpetrators.

The latest incident came two days after security teams destroyed a logistics base used by al-Shabab militants in the Fafi area of Garissa county, where police recovered rice, sugar, and water.

The police said the terrorists who were hiding in the area escaped before they could arrive in their hideout.