Two police officers were shot down while they were both standing guard in front of a church during Sunday service in southeast Kenya.An attack which police believe could be the work of Shabaab militant, has killed two police officers in Kenya.
According to Agence France Presse, AFP, the two Kenyan police
officers were killed on Sunday by gunmen on a motorbike as they were
guarding a church during Sunday service near the Indian Ocean.
“An investigation has been launched and we are not ruling out terrorism because this attack is not a normal robbery,” regional police chief Larry Kieng told journalists of the shooting in the town of Ukunda.
The area in the far southeast of the country has largely escaped
the attacks waged by the Islamist Shabaab group in Kenya and
neighbouring Somalia.
Kieng said the assailants shot at the officers and grabbed their guns, killing one on the spot while the other died in hospital.
Since May, more than 20 police officers and a similar number of
civilians have been killed in a resurgence of attacks in Kenya,
including roadside bombings.