Al-Shabaab images purport to show 2 slain Kenyan police

By Andrew Wasike

NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The al-Shabaab group released images purporting to show the lifeless bodies of two Kenyan officers who went missing last week after a raid by militants on a police station in northern Kenya’s city of Garissa.

Heavily armed militants on Tuesday released graphic images of bodies -- allegedly of Constable Kiprotich Ng’eno and Job Kibet -- paraded in the town of Jilib in Somalia.

The militants also posted pictures of a Kenyan police vehicle that they had allegedly seized as well as an assortment of guns and ammunition.

During the raid on the police station last week, three police officers were seriously wounded.

Authorities confirmed that the militants had made away with weapons from the police station but refused to confirm the deaths of the officers.

Garissa County is located a few kilometers from the porous Kenya-Somali border.

In April 2015, al-Shabaab militants stormed Garissa University, killing more than 140 people, mostly students. The attack is still the deadliest witnessed on Kenyan soil from the Somali-based militant group.