Kenya: Ambulance driver killed in IED attack

By Magdalene Mukami.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) - An ambulance driver, Abey Dubow Mohamed, was killed in Kenya’s northern town of Garissa in a suspected al-Shabab attack Wednesday, according to police.

The ambulance was on its way to pick up a patient when it passed over an improvised explosive device (IED). Three other people who were in the vehicle were also injured.

“The vehicle hit an improvised device that had been planted on the road. Apart from the driver’s death, the others are okay and out of danger,” northeastern regional coordinator Mohamud Ali Saleh told Anadolu Agency over the phone.

Residents in the area claim that they had shared information with the police regarding al-Shabab militants allegedly sneaking into the country but they were ignored, according to Mandera county governor Ali Roba who spoke Monday after al-Shabab militants blew up a police vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing five officers.

On April 2 2015, al-Shabab militants carried out their bloodiest attack on Kenyan soil in the town of Garissa where they attacked a university killing more than 140 students.