Roadside bomb explosion targeting an armored vehicle has killed at least 5 Kenyan soldiers near border town along Somalia.
Ten other soldiers were injured after an armored vehicle hit a landmine on a road in a village of Kiunga in the coastal town of Lamu.
Kenyan military says the explosion targeted its soldiers operating in Lamu, while on a humanitarian civil assignment in the town.
“The soldiers were on mission to fetch and distribute water to the residents in the town when explosion went off”, militray statement said.
The Kenyan army has for years been present in the area in a bid to disrupt attacks by al-Qaeda linked jihadists from the Shabaab group which is fighting to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu.
Kenyan security officers are regularly killed by roadside bombs planted by the militants in the border areas, most recently earlier this month when five soldiers died in a roadside IED bombing claimed by al-Shabaab.
No group says it carried out for Wednesday’s bomb explosion in Kenya’s northeast town of Lamu.
