Authorities in Kenya say that an explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in the northeast of the country has killed four people. Three of the victims were police officers. The blast in the town of Mandera on Monday wounded several others. The town is on the border with Somalia.
NAIROBI, Kenya — An explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in northeastern Kenya killed four people, including three officers, and wounded several others on Monday, authorities said.
Mandera police chief Samwel Mutunga said that two of those wounded were in critical condition and would be flown to the capital, Nairobi. The latest attack followed another one on Sunday in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County, where two police reservists were killed. During a police operation in Garissa County on Sunday, officers recovered materials to make IEDs, an AK-47 rifle and two magazines. Three people escaped during the raid.
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