Nguyo Wambua, the officer in charge of Rural Border Patrol Unit (RBPU) said the two KDF officers were killed by soldiers attached to the unit after KDF soldiers who mistook RBPU officers for bandits started fighting.

"We cannot understand how the KDF officers mistook our team for armed bandits because they were in a known camp complete with government vehicles which could be identified," said Wambua who spoke to Kenyan Media.

It is the first such accident reported since Kenya declared war against Al-Shabaab.

Kenyan forces have been recently carrying out security operations to pursue Al-Shabaab forces alongside the border with Somalia.