{"id":131906,"date":"2026-02-24T05:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ied-blast-injures-3-police-officers-in-fafi-garissa-county\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:02:49","slug":"ied-blast-injures-3-police-officers-in-fafi-garissa-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ied-blast-injures-3-police-officers-in-fafi-garissa-county\/","title":{"rendered":"IED blast injures 3 police officers in Fafi, Garissa County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 \u2014 Three police officers were injured on Monday after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated during a routine patrol in Fafi Sub-County, Garissa County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police said the explosion occurred in the morning in the Harbole area, about four kilometres northwest of the Cobra 10 General Service Unit (GSU) Fafi Operations Camp.<\/p>\n<p>A team of officers led by Chief Inspector Anthony Kungu was on a mission to fetch water using a water bowser when the vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device buried beneath the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion caused extensive damage to the water bowser, particularly in the engine section, and left three officers injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water bowser was extensively damaged at the engine where three officers on board were injured,\u201d the police report stated.<\/p>\n<p>The injured officers sustained multiple injuries, including wounds to the head, neck, chest, shoulders, back, and spine.<\/p>\n<p>They were rescued by fellow officers escorting the convoy in a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle and rushed to a nearby dispensary for emergency medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Plans were underway to airlift the injured officers to Nairobi for specialised medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have launched investigations into the incident, with the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) in Dadaab taking over the probe.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 \u2014 Three police officers were injured on Monday after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated during a routine patrol in Fafi Sub-County, Garissa County. Police said the explosion occurred in the morning in the Harbole area, about four kilometres northwest of the Cobra 10 General Service Unit (GSU) Fafi Operations Camp. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}