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Two injured after explosions rock Mandera Town
What you need to know:
- The first explosion occurred at the road construction site causing extensive damage to a road grader.
- Reports indicated that those injured were the driver of the grader and a worker.
- The explosion happened at the same spot where Governor Ali Roba’s convoy was targeted last month in another attack.
- Mandera Town has experienced numerous blasts especially on the busy Rhamu-Mandera road that pass through the centre of the border town.
Two people were injured following explosions at a road construction site Wednesday morning near Rhamu bridge in Mandera.
Confirming the incident, Mr Feysal Abdinoor a member of the county assembly representing Mandera Town, said the first explosion occurred at the construction site, causing extensive damage to a road grader.
Reports indicated that those injured were the driver of the grader and a worker.
The MCA, who was among the first people at the scene, said the second blast happened minutes after police and local leaders arrived at the scene but said there were no injuries.
Rhamu Ward representative Issack Dahir, who also spoke to Nation.co.ke, confirmed the incident, saying the explosion happened at the same spot where Governor Ali Roba’s convoy was targeted last month in another attack.
“Security officers should do through investigations to establish why this place has been prone to attacks recently,” he said
SECURITY OPERATION LAUNCHED
Following the early morning attack, security officers embarked on a massive security operation on the two-kilometre stretch of road under construction to look for more possible unexploded improvised devices that could be buried under the road.
Mandera Town has experienced numerous blasts, especially on the busy Rhamu-Mandera road that passes through the centre of the border town.
The road is usually busy and is currently under construction by the county government.
On October 15, 2014, Mandera Governor Ali Ibrahim Roba escaped unhurt in an attack on his motorcade after a powerful device exploded as his motorcade passed.
EARLIER ATTACKS
Earlier, in April 2014, unknown armed men shelled the Mandera County government offices, causing extensive damage on one side of the building.
The unidentified heavily armed attackers fired several powerful mortar-propelled grenades at the county offices, but nobody was hurt in the incident since it was early in the day and none of the workers had reported for work at the time of the shelling.
An on Thursday last week an improvised explosive device went off in Mandera Town, damaging a private car.
The explosive had been planted on the roadside about 200 meters from the Rhamu bus stop, where Governor Roba’s convoy was.
