Kenyan police repel suspected terror attack in Garissa

Garissa County Commander Richard Kerina addresses the press following attack on a construction site at Shimbirey on January 20, 2019. PHOTO | KNA

Kenyan police have thwarted an attack by suspected Somali militants al Shabaab on a Chinese-owned construction company in the northeastern region, an official said on Monday, days after the Islamist group killed 21 people in Nairobi.

The assailants wounded four people while they attempted to hit the site in Garissa County, not far from the Kenyan-Somali border, owned by a Chinese road construction company that is building the Garissa-Modogashe highway.