Mandera: Police reservist injured while breaking up village fight over married woman
FILE IMAGE OF A POLICE LINE
A police reservist was stoned and seriously injured as he tried to stop a fight between two clans over a married woman in Eymoly area, Mandera County.
The groups were fighting after one of them accused a man from a different clan of seducing a married woman on Sunday October 5, 2025 in the afternoon.
This got physical with the parties throwing stones and twigs at each other. It was then that a member of the National Police Reserve tried to intervene and was hit in the head by a flying stone.
More security personnel were sent to the area and managed to contain the situation as the injured NPR was sent to hospital for attention.
In Banisa area, Mandera County, at Danich village, a motorcycle rider escaped unhurt after gunmen opened fire at him. He told police he was headed home when he was stopped by a group of gunmen donning military fatigue.
Instead, he sped off as the gunmen opened fire at him. He managed to navigate in the thicket and reported the matter to the local police who said they are investigating the incident.
Police visited the scene and recovered spent cartridges saying they are investigating the motive and those behind the same.
The area is near the Kenya-Somalia border and is usually invaded by al Shabaab militants.
They usually set up explosives on the roads targeting government vehicles.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since the 1991 overthrow of President Siad Barre’s military regime, which ushered in more than two decades of anarchy and conflict in a country deeply divided along clan lines.
Kenya launched Operation Linda Nchi on October 14, 2011, after gunmen seized tourists at the Coast which the Government saw as a threat to the country’s sovereignty as it targeted the nation’s economic lifeline-Tourism.
Kenya’s incursion into southern Somalia started after the kidnapping of two Spanish women, who were working for MSF at the Dadaab refugee camp.
The abductions were carried out by the militants who the troops said planned to push away under the Operation Linda Nchi.
Two years later, the troops managed to take control of Kismayo port under Operation Sledge Hammer.
The troops have liberated many regions near the Kenyan porous border.