Laikipia: Two KDF soldiers killed, others injured in ambush by bandits
Two
Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers were on Wednesday evening shot dead and others injured after an ambush by suspected bandits in Laikipia Nature Conservancy.
The
soldiers are said to have been digging a trench meant to prevent stolen
livestock from being driven to the troubled conservancy when they were
attacked.
Sources
said the bandits had only a short while earlier attempted to attack the GSU base
and engaged the officers in a fierce gun battle.
Two GSU officers were killed during the shootout, where a police inspector also
sustained gunshot injuries.
The GSU officers were accosted by the
bandits a short distance from Kamwenje police base in Laikipia West.
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