GARISSA, Kenya, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Two police officers were killed and four others seriously wounded in a roadside blast early Monday in Garissa County, northeast Kenya.

The police said the officers from the elite paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) were killed when the vehicle in which they were traveling hit an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Dadaab-Garissa road.

"Suspected al-Shabab planted remote-controlled IEDs which hit one vehicle transporting GSU officers who were going for supervision for the Kenya national examination," the police said in a security report.

The police said a search was conducted in the area, which borders Somalia, but failed to catch the perpetrators.

The latest incident came two days after security teams destroyed a logistics base used by al-Shabab militants in the Fafi area of Garissa county, where police recovered rice, sugar, and water.

The police said the terrorists who were hiding in the area escaped before they could arrive in their hideout.

Kenya's northeastern region has borne the brunt of attacks in the last 12 years since Kenya took its troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight al-Shabab.

The extremist group has since changed tactics and resorted to abductions and using improvised explosive devices to carry out attacks in parts of the Coast and northeastern regions, according to police. Enditem

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