A six year old junior boy who is said to have been abducted by Al Shabaab has been located and found deep inside Somalia forest
According to reports, heavily armed Al Shabaab gunmen hijacked a vehicle that the boy was in before he was abducted on Saturday evening in Mandera East, Mandera County and disappearing with him.
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Vanishing into the neighboring Somalia, the larents left everything to fate only to be informed that villagers had found him wandering in the area, deep in Somalia forest crying for help before rescuing him.
Confirming the incident, police officers say that the villagers found him about 20 kilometres inside Somalia and led him back to the Kenyan border where they handed him to the authorities.
This came hours after al Shabaab ambushed and killed a government driver who was with his two relatives including the boy before hijacking and fleeing with his official car in the Kamor area.
The gunmen believed to be al Shabaab terrorists were armed with pistols when they carjacked a government Land Cruiser belonging to Deputy County Commissioner for Mandera East, Patrick Meso
According to reports, one of the attackers is a local in the area who fled to Somalia and joined the Al Shabaab group and they attacked the driver, killed him before fleeing with his vehicle and the boy.
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“Regrettably, the driver lost his life during the incident, and the vehicle was later driven towards the Somalia border by unknown individuals suspected to be al shabaab,” noted Mandera Deputy Director of Enforcement and Head of County Installation Abdikadir Baricha.