![]() ![]() The surge in attacks have forced the government to suspend plans to reopen the Kenya-Somalia border. The Somalia-based militants have increased raids in Lamu in recent weeks, often targeting security forces. The al-Shabab militant group said it carried out the attack. The statement did not mention the number of soldiers killed. "The injured were airlifted to Manda Base Hospital for medical care," read the KDF statement. The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF ) in a statement on Monday said the soldiers were on patrol along the Milimani Baure road when the incident happened. Military spokesperson Brig Zipporah Kioko told the local Nation website that the incident occurred in volatile Lamu's Boni Forest. Getty Images Copyright: Getty Images The al-Shabab militant group said it carried out the attack Image caption: The al-Shabab militant group said it carried out the attackĪn unspecified number of Kenyan soldiers are feared dead and several others injured after their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in the coastal Lamu county on Sunday. “With the emerging evidence of non-medical use of veterinary drugs, there is urgent need to institute measures to regulate and control the diversion of such drugs into the illegal market,” it said in a statement. Nacada said the abuse of the veterinary drugs “presents a potential public health crisis” in managing drug overdose cases. It found that the symptoms were due to a high dosage of heroin and a combination of heroin and other drugs including xylazine (a veterinary tranquiliser), prescription drugs and other substances. Nacada said in a statement on Sunday that it had not found in the samples it collected any presence of fentanyl - a deadly, synthetic opioid, many times more powerful than heroin - as was widely believed. It follows the emergence of videos that have been shared widely on social media of people in the coastal region suspected to be drug abusers in “zombie-like” stances. Kenya's anti-drugs abuse agency, Nacada, has raised concern over drug addicts injecting themselves with animal tranquilisers as an alternative to heroin. Getty Images Copyright: Getty Images Nacada said the abuse of the veterinary drugs by humans “presents a potential public health crisis" Image caption: Nacada said the abuse of the veterinary drugs by humans “presents a potential public health crisis" ![]()
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