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12 Killed in Shabaab Bomb Attack in Kenya
 [ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A kaboom at a guesthouse in northeast Kenya killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, in an attack claimed by Shabaab hard boyz who last hit the area earlier this month."We have found 12 bodies so far after we managed to access the building," a police brass hat told AFP. "We are still combing the area with the help of anti-terrorism police and sniffer dogs in the ongoing search and rescue." Eleven men and one woman were killed in the 3:30 am (0030 GMT) blast at the Bisharo lodge, a police source told AFP. The toll was confirmed in a government statement that said part of the building was collapsed by the blast. Kenyan media reported that some of the dead were members of a theatre group due to perform for school children in Mandera. The al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab bad boy group claimed the attack in a message broadcast by its Radio Andalus media organization, claiming 15 were killed. "This attack is part of a series of attacks in which the Mujahideen are hunting down infidels" in northeast Kenya, the group said. It is the second Shabaab strike in Mandera in three weeks. The previous one on October 6 killed six people at a gated residential building that mainly housed non-Moslems, less than a kilometer from the volatile Somalia border town of Beled Hawa. Also on Tuesday, a Shabaab jacket wallah attacked an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... military base housing Djiboutian soldiers in the central Somali city of Beledweyne. It is not known how many were killed in that attack which comes as Somalia is in the process of selecting parliamentarians, and a new president, due by the end of November. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-26 |
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