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Police claimed to have arrested two terror suspects in Mandera county: Yunis Mohammed Osman, a Somali, and Mahabub Aden Adow, a Kenyan. Osman had escaped from the Dadaab refugee camp, and Adow had ben previously charged with terrorism and freed on bail. Antiterrorism police arrested Mbaraka Omar Ramadhani, a Tanzanian member of Shabaab who was picked up in Mandera city on his way to Somalia. On May 25, a group of at least 10 Shabaab fighters attacked Kenyan forces on a road between Hindi, Kenya and Ras Kamboni, Somalia, killing two soldiers; two other soldiers are missing.