A Kenyan police report seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said the cart pulled by two donkeys and ridden by one man passed the Somali checkpoint of Bula Hawa and entered Kenyan territory, where it was stopped by officers to check the load.
The rider jumped off and ran back into Somalia moments before the cart went
kaboom!, causing a huge fire at the border post in the northern county of Mandera, the report said.
The report said that the cart's driver was arrested by Somali police as he tried to flee, and that the Mandera county security team was negotiating with the Bula Hawa police to have him handed over to Kenyan authorities.
No one grabbed credit for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord..., a Somalia-based bad boy group linked to al-Qaeda.
Al-Shabaab has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops into Somalia in 2011 to fight the krazed killers. The group had staged a string of kidnappings of Westerners inside Kenya that threatened the country's tourism; a key pillar of its economy.
The Kenyan forces became part of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeeping mission that has bolstered Somalia's weak government for more than 20 years against an al-Shabaab insurgency. The AU mission last year began a drawdown of its troops under a U.N. Security Council resolution to return control to the Somali government.
In recent years, al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya have been limited to roadside kabooms mainly targeting the military and police. On Monday, five coppers were maimed when their truck was hit by a roadside kaboom in Lafey Mandera county.