Criminal investigation department officer shot dead by unknown assailants in Garissa

Garissa, Kenya: An officer from Criminal investigation department (CID) was on Friday night gun down by unknown assailants at a border town of Liboi, Garissa County in the incursion prone North-Eastern region neighbouring the war-ravaged Somalia.

Confirming the incident, the North eastern regional CID boss Musa Yego said the officer who was attached to Criminal Investigating Unit was shot severally by yet to be known attackers who were armed with firearms, while heading home from a local Mosque where he went for an evening  prayers.

Mr Yego said the officer was trailed from behind from the mosque by attackers who seemed to either prayed with him or strategically waiting him outside the mosque vicinity.

He said “The attackers who were four in number hurriedly followed the officer on foot before opening fire on him and then escaped into the darkness of the night”,

He added “The motive of the attack is not yet established, but the attackers are seemingly people who knew the deceased well including the mosque he frequented for his evening prayer”,

Libio is a small, but busy trading center which is about 18 kilometers west of the Somali border town of Dobley, and has an important border crossing to Somalia, despite it is proximity to the war-torn country it had a rare incidents of insecurity for many years compared to more interior towns like Dadaab and Garissa.

Yego said, the Mohamed Yarrow, who was attached to criminal investigating unit and based in the area for the last two years has not indicated/reported any threats to his life adding his attackers used AK47 assault rifle to kill him.

Garissa County has suffered numerous terror attacks targeting government officials, eateries, churches and security facilities since the country sent its military troop to Somalia to root out the Islamist group inspired by Al-Qaeda ideology of creating an Islamic state in Somalia.

The NEP CID boss said extra a security personnel were deployed this morning (Saturday) to Liboi area to seal off the border in a bid to catch up the criminals who killed the officer and brought them to justice.