At least ten police officers have been killed by a bomb explosion near Kenya's border with Somalia on Saturday. <br />At around ten fifty AM local time,... a police patrol vehicle carrying around a dozen officers hit an improvised exposive device,... while they were pursuing extremists who had kidnapped three police reservists.<br />Meanwhile, another blast in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu claimed eight lives,... according to emergency services.<br />Both attacks have been claimed by Somalia's al-Shabab extremist group,... which is fighting the UN-backed Somali government,... in a bid to impose strict Islamic laws across the nation. <br />
