Kenya has demanded that authorities in Somalia hands over rogue members of National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) who shot and killed a police officer in Mandera.
The attackers also shot and injured a second police officer in the attack.
This came as the Somalia authorities handed back two rifles that had been snatched from the slain Kenyan police officer in an attack at a security post at the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera.
The rifles included a G3 and an AK47, which were handed over to the Mandera security team on Saturday March 15 morning.
Whereas the guns had 90 bullets when they were stolen, only 10 were returned.
This came hours after a group of gunmen believed to be rogue members of NISA shot and killed a Kenyan police officer in an attack at a border point in Mandera.
NISA is the national intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
Police said five officers from Border Police Unit manning Kenya Somalia boarder at boarder point 4 were attacked by about 20 NISA officers.
The group opened fire at the Kenyan team killing constable Dennis Omari instantly in the Friday March 14 incident.
They also shot and injured a second officer. He was injured in the left upper hand and currently being treated at Mandera Referral Hospital and in stable condition and later airlifted to Nairobi, police said.
The attackers grabbed the deceased officer’s G3 rifle which had 60 bullets and an AK47 rifle with 30 bullets belonging to another cop and fled from the scene.
Police later said the motive of the attack was the revenge of a previous arrest of terror suspects where a group tried to abduct Chinese nationals in the town last month.
Police said the attack was co-ordinated by a brother of one of the suspects who is a NISA officer.
Senior police officers visited the scene as part of the probe into the attack and sent demands for the hand over of the guns and suspects behind the attack.
Hours later, Somalia authorities called to say they had the guns and were ready to hand them back.
The suspects behind the attack were however yet to be arrested.
The Somalia military said the hunt on them was ongoing.
Police authorities said they are addressing the issue and vowed justice for the attack.
Following the failed abduction, anti-terrorism detectives drawn from the Mandera detachment arrested the Assistant chief of Bula power sub location in Mandera Township in connection with his involvement in an attempted and illegal processing of Kenyan IDs in favour of two foreign nationals cum terror suspects.
The suspects identified as Isack Mohammed Abdi and Noor Yakub Ali were arrested in a failed abduction plan targeting Chinese nationals in the town on February 18.
The administrator is suspected to have facilitated the procurement of an acknowledgement for registration slip /Id waiting card for the terror suspects who were arrested while planning the abduction of a team of foreign nationals engaged in the construction of a sewer line in Mandera town.
On February 18, police in Mandera East arrested two suspected al Shabaab operatives, who had planned the abduction of a team of foreign nationals working at a sewer line construction site within Mandera Township.
Acting on intelligence, the ever agile sleuths swiftly arrested the prime suspect, Isaac Abdi Mohamed alias Kharan Abdi Hassan, 29, who had recently sneaked his way into the country from El-ade in Somalia and forged a number of documents to identify as a Kenyan.
On keen scrutiny and thorough interrogation, it was discovered that the suspect was to pay Sh100,000 to his local associate, who would assist in the abduction exercise before he and another, Noor Yacob Ali, 29 facilitated the to-be victims’ movement to El-ade at a Sh300,000 fee.
Consequently, another operation was conducted, where Yacob Ali was cornered and arrested at Metameta area within Mandera Township by a multi-agency security team.