Police said the assailants ambushed the ambulance at Lafey town and started shooting at it. – Unknown gunmen in Mandera attacked an ambulance that was rushing a labouring woman to hospital and shot at it severally– They shattered the vehicle’s windscreen as the ambulance driver sped off to Lafey Health Centre where the woman was attended toA woman who was nursing labour pains escaped narrowly when gunmen shot at the ambulance she was being rushed to hospital in on Saturday night, May 28, 2016, in Mandera County. The ambulance driver sped off, even as bullets shattered the vehicle’s windscreen, reported The Star. Just this week on Wednesday, May 25, the area witnessed more gun drama when 11 al-Shabaab militants were killed at El-Wak town near the Kenya-Somalia border. The town of El-Wak in Gedo region borders the county of Mandera in Kenya and shares a name with El-Wak town in Kenya, which hosted President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto recently.

Source: The Star May 29, 2016 19:42 UTC