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| Shaboobs kill 28 in bus attack in Kenya |
| 2014-11-23 |
| Somalia's Al Shabab insurgents said they staged a bus attack in northeast Kenya on Saturday that killed 28 people. Witnesses said all non-Muslims inside the bus were led out to be shot while passengers identified as Muslims were spared. Al Shabab said its men had ambushed the Nairobi-bound bus outside Mandera town, near Kenya's border with Somalia and Ethiopia, and killed the non-Muslims in retaliation for raids on mosques in the port city of Mombasa. Early this week, police in Mombasa shot dead a man and arrested over 376 others when they searched four mosques in the port city that they said were used to recruit militants and stash weapons. "The Mujahideen successfully carried out an operation near Mandera early this morning, which resulted in the perishing of 28 crusaders, as a revenge for the crimes committed by the Kenyan crusaders against our Muslim brethren in Mombasa," Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, Al Shabab's spokesman, said in a statement. Police Inspector-General David Kimaiyo told reporters that 19 men and nine women were killed. "Preliminary reports indicate that the attackers, who were heavily armed, later fled towards the border into Somali," he said. A witness to the ambush said the attackers entered the bus and greeted passengers before trying to identify Muslims and non-Muslims. Ahmed Maalim, an official at the Mandera East sub-county security force, said the attackers ordered passengers thought to be non-Muslims out of the bus. Three were spared after reciting Quran verses and ordered back into the bus. "The women and men (remaining outside) were separated, then shot at close range. None survived," he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |