A police
officer who was shot and injured in an attack by Somalia’s National
Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Mandera was flown to Nairobi for specialised
treatment.
Also flown
was the body of constable Dennis Omari who was killed when the NISA gunmen
struck at a border post in Mandera.
This came
as the NISA officials were led to the border post to revenge the arrest of a
brother to one of their officers in Kenya.
Police said
the injured officer had bullet wounds in the left upper hand.
The gang
stole two guns belonging to the slain officer and the injured one. The guns
were however later handed back to Kenya.
The
rifles included a G3 and an AK47, which were handed over to the Mandera
security team on Saturday morning.
However,
some bullets were missing. Whereas the guns had 90 bullets when they were
stolen, only 10 were returned.
More police were deployed to the border area on Sunday amid complaints they were restricting movements of people and vehicles.
NISA is the national intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Police said five officers from the Border Police Unit manning Kenya Kenya-Somalia border at border point 4 were attacked by about 20 NISA officers.
The group opened fire at the Kenyan team killing Omari instantly in the Friday, March 14 incident.
The attackers grabbed the deceased officer’s G3 rifle which had 60 bullets and
an AK47 rifle with 30 bullets belonging to another cop and fled from the scene.
They returned the weapons. Police later said the motive of the attack was the revenge of a previous arrest of terror suspects where a group tried to abduct Chinese nationals in the town last month.
Police said the attack was coordinated by a brother of one of the suspects who
is a NISA officer.
Senior police officers visited the scene as part of the probe into the attack
and sent demands for the handover of the guns and suspects behind the attack.
Hours
later, Somalia authorities called to say they had the guns and were ready to
hand them back.
The suspects behind the attack were however yet to be arrested. The Somalia military said the hunt on them was ongoing. Police authorities said they are addressing the issue and vowed justice for the attack.
