Key facts
- Eight people killed: two police reservists, five construction workers and a driver, police and a regional official said.
- The ambush happened at about 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) in Mandera county, in an area where a road is being built, a local police station report said.
- Regional official John Odhiambo Otieno said the armed assailants were believed to have crossed the nearby border from Somalia.
- Investigations were under way to identify the attackers, Otieno added.
- Al Shabaab, which controls large swathes of Somalia, frequently carries out cross-border attacks on Kenyan military and civilian targets, the report said.
- Security analysts say the assaults are aimed at pressuring Kenya into withdrawing its troops from peacekeeping missions in Somalia.
Eight people were killed in northeast Kenya on November 10, 2026, in an attack by suspected al Shabaab militants near the Somali border, police and a senior regional official said. The dead were two police reservists, five construction workers and a driver.
A report from a local police station said the ambush happened at about 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) in Mandera county, in an area where a road is being built. Regional official John Odhiambo Otieno said the armed assailants were believed to have crossed the nearby border from Somalia. Investigations were under way to identify the attackers, Otieno added.
Al Shabaab, which controls large swathes of Somalia, frequently carries out cross-border attacks on Kenyan military and civilian targets. Security analysts say the assaults are aimed at pressuring Kenya into withdrawing its troops from peacekeeping missions in Somalia.