A Kenyan police official says an extremist died in Kenya's north when a roadside bomb he was planting exploded.

Suleiman Rashid, a senior officer in the northern town of Mandera, said Saturday that officers on patrol came across five suspected members of Somalia's al-Shabab extremist group planting a roadside bomb.

Rashid said the officers shot at the suspected rebels who panicked and detonated the bomb killing one insurgent while the others escaped, AP reported.

Source: SPA