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Kenya police confirm five killed by roadside bomb

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Five people were killed Monday when a minibus in northeast Kenya was destroyed by a roadside bomb during an ambush by armed men near the border of Somalia, police said.

The attackers opened fire on the 14-seater vehicle after it ran over the explosive about eight kilometres (five miles) from Mandera town on the Kenya-Somali frontier.

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“A General Service Unit patrol team, which was on foot and close to the area, responded and engaged the attackers, who fled towards Somalia border direction,” a police report on the incident said.

The attackers used guns and rocket-propelled grenades during the assault, the report added.

Several passengers survived the attack “with various degrees of injuries”.

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The Mandera region is prone to raids over its long and porous land border with Somalia, where the Al-Shabaab militant group controls swathes of countryside and central government authority in remote areas is weak.

Other regions bordering Somalia are also susceptible to attacks and Kenyan officials are often quick to blame the militants for assaults on its soil.

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Kenya has suffered several deadly attacks by Al-Shabaab fighters in retaliation for Nairobi sending troops into Somalia in 2011 as part of an African Union force to oust the jihadists.

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