and three civilians were killed on Friday after being lured into an ambush in desert country near the Somali border. In Garissa the rioters burned cars and looted shops, carrying placards denouncing the Kenyanĺ government for not controlling the security situation. Police used teargas to control the rioters, and scores were injured, the Sunday Nation reported. The area was the centre of a bitter guerrilla war in the 1960`s when Somalia, then newly independent, backed a demand by many of the Kenyan Somalis to secede to Somalia.