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ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - An explosion hit a Kenyan security forces vehicle Friday, wounding three, a day after the first serious clash between Kenyan soldiers and Somali militants inside the neighboring nation, medics and police said.
The attack is the fourth on Kenyan soil this week. Kenya sent soldiers and heavy weapons into Somalia 13 days ago to crush al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group Nairobi blames for a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and border incursions.
Police and military sources said the attack happened close to the town of Modika, which is on the road that leads from Garissa in northern Kenya to the Dadaab refugee camp and then onto the Somali border.
Several sources said they suspected the vehicle carrying members of Kenya's paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) had been hit by a land mine, although the exact nature of the explosion remained to be confirmed officially.
"No deaths so far. The officers are being treated. We have managed to arrest one person and he's being interrogated," Provincial Commissioner James Ole Serian told Reuters.
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told Reuters they suspected a land mine was behind the blast and two had been injured.
The Kenya Red Cross said the vehicle hit was in a convoy of four.
"The vehicle in which the officers were traveling was extensively damaged and partly burned after being hit by what we suspect might either be a land mine, or a bomb," a police source in the provincial headquarters, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
"NO REGRETS" FOR GRENADE ATTACK
Two medical sources at the Garissa Provincial General Hospital said two of the GSU officers were in critical condition and a third had been admitted for treatment.
"We have received three patients who have been injured. Two are in a serious condition with burns and fractures," said Musa Mohamed, a medical superintendent at the Garissa hospital.
The attack came a day after al Shabaab gunmen ambushed Kenyan soldiers inside Somalia in the first serious clash since the east African country sent its troops across the border.
Unknown gunmen also attacked a vehicle in the far north of Kenyan near the Somali border Wednesday, killing four government employees and wounding two guards.
Monday, the capital Nairobi was hit by two separate grenade attacks on a bar and a bus terminus. One person was killed and 29 were wounded.
A Kenyan man who pleaded guilty to the grenade attack on the bus station and membership of al Shabaab was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a Nairobi court.
Elgiva Bwire Oliacha, also known as Mohamed Seif, told reporters he had no regrets after a magistrate read out the life sentence for the grenade attack.
Earlier in the same court, prosecutors charged two more suspects with the same crimes as Oliacha. Omar Muchiri Athuman and Stephen Macharia Mwangi denied the charges and will appear in court again on November 4.
(Additional reporting by Humphrey Malalo and Robert Waweru in Nairobi; Writing by David Clarke; Editing by Karolina Tagaris)
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