Dadaab (Sunatimes) A Kenyan policeman was killed and two seriously injured in an explosion in one of the world’s largest refugee camp complex, Dadaad refugee camp, near the border with Somalia on Monday.

The explosion hit Police vehicle in Hagardera refugee camp of Dadaab, killing the policeman and injuring two others and destroyed the vehicle. The exact cause of the blast was not immediately known.

The explosion is latest in a spate of grenade and landmine attacks in Kenya’s border regions with Somalia since its troops crossed into the neighbouring Somalia.

The explosion comes just a week after four people were injured in two separate grenade attacks on two restaurants in northern Kenyan town of Garissa.

The grenades were reportedly thrown into a local prisons mess and into another eatery but they hit the entrances.

The second incident happened at the local medium prisons officers’ mess when a lobed grenade exploded near the entrance after it hit the wall.

Earlier this month, a Kenyan policeman was also killed and three people wounded in a similar explosion in Ifo II section of Dadaab refugee camp

Kenyan troops moved into Somalia in October to fight Al-Shabaab militants who have promised revenge attacks.

Kenyan officials blame Al-Shabaab rebel group or their sympathisers for a series of recent shootings and bombings, although armed bandits also operate in the border areas.

Regional armies are now pushing against Shabaab positions in Somalia, with Kenyan forces in the South, Ugandan and Burundian African Union forces in Mogadishu, and Ethiopian troops in the West.

By Fadumo Farah.