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Kenyan police make arrests after six killed in grisly attack
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kenyan police said Tuesday they had made four arrests following a brutal attack in a coastal region bordering Somalia that left six people dead and homes in ashes.One man was beheaded and five were shot or burned to death in the assault on a village in Lamu County which began late Sunday. The Lamu region has suffered  ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... and local authorities initially suspected the Somalia-based Death Eaters were behind the attack, though did not rule out other motives. There has not yet been any claim of responsibility and police said investigations so far suggested a land dispute could be at play. "The investigation is progressing on well and so far four people are in jug. More arrests will follow," National Police front man Bruno Shioso told AFP. "So far it has been established that the attack is linked to local disputes on land," he said, adding such incidents were not uncommon in the area. He said police were investigating whether a separate killing on Monday evening roughly 60 kilometers (37 miles) away was connected. Police said the assailants in the earlier attack stabbed and beheaded a local elder and razed his home, and rubbed out another man whose body was found on a roadside nearby. The corpses of four other men burned beyond recognition were found with their hands bound in another location, according to a police report seen by AFP. Several houses were also found torched and bullet casings recovered, the report said. Lamu, which includes the popular tourist beach destination of Lamu Island, lies close to the Somali frontier and al-Shabaab has staged cross-border attacks in the coastal region. In January 2020, the al-Qaeda-linked Death Eaters stormed a US military base in Lamu, destroying several aircraft and killing three Americans. Al-Shabaab have targeted Kenya in retaliation for Nairobi sending troops into Somalia in 2011 as part of 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... force to oust the bad boys. Related: Lamu County: 2022-01-04 Al-Shabaab militants raid Kenya's remote village, kill six people Lamu County: 2021-09-29 Kenyan military says at least 15 Al-Shabaab militants killed in IED blast Lamu County: 2021-07-18 Kenya: Ban Muslim Women From Riding on Boda Bodas, Say Clerics Posted by: Fred 2022-01-05 |
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