Three shot dead in a bank-Police

Three people were shot dead by attackers in a raid on a commercial bank in northeast Kenya’s on Friday, police said.

Charles, the police commander said that the civilians and a police officer died in the attack in Mandera County.

Chacha said to Reuters through phone “There were five armed gangsters. When they arrived at the bank, they shot the officer at the door, and the police managed to shoot one of the criminals, but …they escaped.”

In another development, an unprepared explosive device had also been donated on a road in the same town but no injuries had been reported, the Kenya Red Cross said.