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Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said the police have also requested the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) to help them track down the missing officers — Fredrick Chirchir and Joseph Wambugu — who were kidnapped when Al-Shabaab attacked two police bases in Garissa County, about 35 km from the border with Somalia.
“We have are hunting for the two missing police officers. We have also requested the military to help us trace them across the border,” Mwinyi told Xinhua yesterday.
Security has been beefed up along the border with Somalia after Al-Shabaab attacked two police bases in northern town of Garissa and killed 6 civilians among them two policemen on May 25.
The Saturday evening attack which the insurgents have claimed responsibility has left six police officers missing.
Al-Shabaab later said on the social media that they are holding two Kenyan policemen men captive.
Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo said on Monday more security forces have been deployed in the porous border to help contain the cross border killings after the attack that targeted two police posts near Liboi in the border.
Kimaiyo also met with northern Kenyan leaders to discuss the increasing cases of insecurity in the region which once enjoyed relative peace before the cross border.
He said the security agencies both in Kenya and neighbouring Somalia are tracking the movements of the two missing police officers.
The police have particularly warned against the laxity in the screening of cars for explosives at all shopping malls and any business or social gatherings with at least 10 people at any given moment that these might be vulnerable to attacks.
Kenya’s tourism has suffered a decline in the number of tourists arriving since September 2011 when the Somali militant group, the Al-Shabaab, carried out the kidnappings of tourists in the Lamu archipelago and the kidnapping of the Spanish volunteers. — Xinhua.
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