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Kenyan police foil terror attack in border town
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GARISSA, Kenya, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police on Monday thwarted a terror
attack in the border town of Garissa after an Improvised Explosive Devices
(IED) was detected in a primary school where children were playing.
The IED, which was planted at the school's play ground and neatly wrapped
in a 20 litre jerrican, was obviously targeting school children playing in
the field, said the police.
"We believe the master minders of this deadly object were targeting school
children who normally play around after classes, lucky enough members of
the public noted its presence and in turn informed us before and we acted
swiftly," regional CID commander Musa Yego told journalists in Garissa.
Yego said the explosion could heard around a radius of 10 km from the scene
where the IED was detonated by bomb experts of the Kenya Defense Forces
(KDF).
The impact of the explosive device formed a big crater on the ground with
the shrapnels spreading all over the place.
"This could have cost many innocent lives of Kenyans. We want to thank
members of the public who were quick to report to us. We are appealing to
them to continue with the same spirit if we are to ensure that peace
prevails in Garissa town," said Yego.
The latest incident came after police recovered an AK rifle with 21 rounds
of ammunition at In Ifo 1 refugee camp in Dadaab district on Sunday night.
The detonation of the IED in Garissa comes just a day after three people
were killed and 82 others injured by bombs planted in two commuter buses in
Nairobi.
Since Kenya sent troops across the border into Somalia in October 2011,
northern, eastern and parts of Nairobi and Mombasa have been hit by a
series of blasts, many targeting local security forces and humanitarian
workers.
Several attacks believed to have been carried out by Al-Shabaab militants
have occurred in Mandera, Wajir, and Garissa and Dadaab districts of
northern Kenya even as the military reports gains against the Islamist
group by capturing their military bases and killing scores of them.
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