by Joy Nabukewa
LAMU, Kenya, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's security officers confirmed Thursday they have rescued two out of four school children who went missing following a suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu on Tuesday.
Lamu County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri said the two were found during operation within vast Boni on Wednesday.
"They had broken leg and head injuries and were evacuated and flown to Nairobi hospital for specialised treatment," Kanyiri told Xinhua by phone.
At least eight people, including four schoolchildren and four police officers, were killed during the attack believed to have been orchestrated by Al-Shabaab militants.
Intelligence report indicates Al-Shabaab militant sprayed bullet on the police truck after it was hit with improvised explosive device that left eight killed among then four primary school pupils in Lamu.
The militants had targeted Rapid Border Patrol Unit team that was heading to Mukoye from Marerani, Kiunga in the coastal region of Lamu.
"The IED destroyed the lorry before the Al-Shabaab who were hiding from the forest opened fire to maximum the impact attack and increase the fatalities," a senior police officer said. They later vanished to the vast forest
Reports indicate that security might have ignored terror alert that had warned of possible attack within Kiunga arena.
The intelligence was shared among security agents after the militants were spotted by locals who then alerted police reservists. They had targeted security agents commuters plying Lamu highway.
