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One person has been killed, with another one left injured after they were suspected to have attacked two police officers in Lamu County.

According to an update posted by Citizen TV on Friday August 7, 2020, the police officers are said to have been attacked at Pate Island in Lamu East.

The Lamu County Commissioner said that one of the attacked police officers is currently nursing injuries.

This is however not the first time police officers are being attacked in the Coastal region County.

Just last month, a police officer was hacked to death at night by a gang of panga-wielding thugs in Tchundwa village in Lamu.

Constable Rodgers Odhiambo, who was attached to the Tchundwa police post in Lamu East, was accosted as he walked out of a shop in the village at around 8.30pm.

The attack was not however, the first one.

In October last year, a similar incident was witnessed in the area.

The incident was confirmed by Lamu county commissioner Irungu Macharia, who said the officer suffered cut wounds to his forehead, neck and limbs.

The officer who was in civilian clothes and unarmed as he was not on duty at the time is believed to have bled to death.

Hesborn Okemwa, who was attached to the same post, was lured to his death by an unknown gang on October 2, 2019.

His badly mutilated body was recovered several meters inside a mangrove forest in Kizingitini on October 5.

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The United States has confirmed that three of its citizens were killed and two injured in Sunday’s Al Shabaab attack at a Kenya Defence Force (KDF) military base in Manda Bay, Lamu County.

US Africa Command through a press release said that during the attack, one US service member and two Department of Defense contractors were killed at the military base.

In addition, two Department of Defense members were wounded.

In the statement, the US Africa Command said the wounded Americans were in stable condition and that they were being evacuated.

The names of the wounded and fallen soldiers were however withheld as part of the next of kin notification process.

Read the press statement below.

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Officer in Charge of Lamu Police Station (OCS) has been arrested following a tough order issued by Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i.

The Interior Cabinet Secretary over the weekend angrily pledged to zero down on drug traffickers.

The police boss has been arrested for facilitating the release of a suspected drug trafficker.

He was arrested alongside three other junior officers—all based at Faza Island.

According to the Inspector General of Police (IG), Hillary Mutyambai, the suspect who was allegedly found with Cannabis Sativa had been arrested late Sunday by a team of officers from the Border Patrol Unit.

The suspect was however released for unknown reasons.

“We want to know under which circumstances he was released because they claim he escaped. That explanation is very suspicious in itself. We are now looking for the suspect who escaped” Mutyambai stated according to Capital FM.

He further revealed that the two officers from the Border Patrol Unit who had effected the arrest had been summoned to write statements as officials contemplated undertaking an administrative action against the officers in custody.

On Sunday, Matiang’i, launched a special operation to flush out criminal activities in Mombasa. 

The outspoken CS identified drug peddlers as the key reason behind the rise of the infamous killer gang,wakali kwanza, that has been enjoying a reign of terror at the coast.

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