Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
1 June 2008
Reports from Liboi town on the Kenyan-somali border say that unknown armed Somali groups have shot dead four Kenyan soldiers Sunday morning according to the officials.
Initial reports from the killing say that the soldiers were disjointedly shot dead in Liboi and an area called Dajabula that lies between Kenya and Somalia.
The killing of these soldiers came as the Kenyan Security personnel in the bordering Mandera town and its environs have been put on high alert following the increasing numbers of refugees entering the country from war torn Somalia.
Mandera residents say that the government has deployed security officers along the Kenya Somalia border amid escalating fighting in Somalia's Bulla Hawa region about two kilometers from Mandera town.
Addressing the security officers in Mandera town, Mungathia urged the officers to stamp out banditry along the common border of Kenya and Somalia.
He said that the government was vigilant to ensure that illegal firearms did not enter into the country.
He also asked members of the public to volunteer information about suspicious individuals to help prevent incursions by militia from Somalia.
There has been increasing unrest in Somalia with US warplanes killing an Islamist rebel leader Thursday.
Sources said the US bombing of Dusamareb in central Somalia killed Al Qaeda's leader in Somalia Aden Hashi Ayro and 30 other people.
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