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Donkey-cart bomb kills Kenyan police officer

A bomb tied to a donkey cart has exploded on the Kenya-Somalia border killing one police officer, local media are reporting.

Two other people were injured, according to a post on X from the Nation newspaper.

The two donkeys pulling the cart reportedly survived.

Police officers were inspecting the goods on the back of the cart just after it had crossed into Kenya at Mandera, which is in the far north-east of the country, when the bomb went off, reports say.

Video said to be from the scene shows thick black smoke rising from where the explosion happened. Pictures of the aftermath show a scarred donkey standing up.

Mandera has in the past been targeted by the Somalia-based al-Shabab jihadist group.

Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC

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