NAIROBI, KENYA: Suspected Al Shabaab militants on Friday carjacked and escaped with two vehicles ferrying Miraa to Somalia near Kiunga border, Lamu County. The fate of five crew who were on board not immediately known.
Abdulahi Liban, an agent in the area said the gunmen struck at about midday as the four wheel drive vehicles were headed for Somalia and took them hostage.
Liban said they later found several sacks of miraa that the vehicles were carrying damped in the area few kilometers away from the scene of the attack.
“We are yet to know where our colleagues are so far. They took the two vehicles that had miraa destined to Somalia,” said Liban on the phone.
The attack is the second to happen in the same area. In August, a Kenyan driver was beheaded in a similar attack.
Two vehicles that the deceased and his colleagues had then are yet to be recovered.
Friday, police who asked not to be named said a hunt on the vehicles was on but added they suspected they had crossed to Somalia.
“Such attacks are usually well planned and I suspect the attackers are now in Somalia,” said a senior officer who asked not to be named.
