At least two members of Kenya\u2019s National Police Reserve (NPR) were killed on Wednesday evening after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at a border point in Mandera County, near the Kenya\u2013Somalia frontier.<\/p>\n
The explosion occurred at around 6:00 p.m. on January 14, 2026, at Point Four\u2019s Kulun area, which lies along the Kenya\u2013Somalia border and directly borders Bula Hawa town in Somalia.<\/p>\n
Police said the NPR officers were on duty at the site when the device exploded. Those killed were identified as NPR Corporal Mohamed Issack and NPR Constable Abdirashid Shabbellow.<\/p>\n
Two other officers sustained serious injuries in the blast and were rushed to hospital, where they were reported to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Security officials who visited the scene said preliminary findings indicate that the explosive device had been planted at the location where the NPR officers routinely operate. Investigators recovered a destroyed mobile phone believed to have been used to trigger the explosion.<\/p>\n
According to police, the recovered phone contained a Somalia-registered SIM card and has been taken for forensic analysis as investigations continue.<\/p>\n
Security agencies have launched a full investigation into the incident, amid heightened concerns over cross-border attacks and the use of improvised explosive devices in the region.<\/p>\n
Mandera County, which borders Somalia, has previously experienced similar security incidents linked to militant activity and cross-border infiltration.<\/p>\n
Mustaqbal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least two members of Kenya\u2019s National Police Reserve (NPR) were killed on Wednesday evening after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at a border point in Mandera County, near the Kenya\u2013Somalia frontier. The explosion occurred at around 6:00 p.m. on January 14, 2026, at Point Four\u2019s Kulun area, which lies along the Kenya\u2013Somalia border…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":91717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91718,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91716\/revisions\/91718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}