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Two Somali refugees killed in northern Kenya
Two Somali refugees were shot dead by unknown bandits at Kenya’s northern Ifo refugee camp in the neighborhood of war-torn Somalia, police reported on Sunday.
The senior police officer in charge of operations at the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex, Abdalla Sharif, said the two refugees were shot by the bandits who were escaping after committing a robbery within the refugee camp at around 9:00 p.m. local time on Saturday.
“The two were shot dead by the bandits numbering 10 as they tried to flash a torch to identify who they were and in the process they were shot. One of them died at the GIZ hospital while undergoing treatment,” Sharif stated.
GIZ is a non-governmental organization hospital that operates within the Ifo refugee camp. Sharif said the police were still pursuing the killers still at large.
The local police officer was reluctant to link the incident to Al-Shabaab militants from Somalia, who are said to be hiding in the refugee camps without valid documentation.
“We want to believe that, in one way or another that these people are linked to this terror group that has been committing all sorts of crime within the camp. We are closely working with the locals in a bid of apprehending them,” added Sharif.
The authorities link the recurrent killing and grenade attacks in the three refugee camps of Ifo, Hagdera and Daghaley to sympathizers of Al-Shabaab members hiding in the camps under the pretext of being refugees.
The incident comes just two days after a woman was seriously injured right outside the camp.