[Pak Daily Times] At least 15 people have been killed in a new attack near Kenya's coast, officials said Tuesday, just 24 hours after Somalia's Shabaab rebels massacred close to 50 people in the same area.The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group said its fighters carried out the latest attack on a village, and that its commando unit had managed to return to base unhindered after two nights of carnage. "We carried out another attack last night. We killed 20 people, mainly police and Kenyan wildlife wardens. The commandos have been going to several places looking for military personnel," Shabaab's military front man Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP by telephone. "The commandos have fulfilled their duties and returned peacefully to their base," he added, without saying if the attackers were still inside Kenya or had driven back across the Somali border, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the north.
Police confirmed the gunnies, apparently part of the same group that massacred nearly 50 people in the town of Mpeketoni overnight Sunday, attacked the village of Poromoko, also situated in Lamu county, late on Monday. Kenyan police spokeswoman Zipporah Mboroki confirmed the new attack -- which came as brass hats were flying in to the area to coordinate security operations -- and security sources said there were 15 dead. Sunday night's assault on Mpeketoni, near the coastal island and popular tourist resort of Lamu, was the worst attack on Kenyan soil since last September's siege of the Westgate shopping mall in the capital Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed.
Witnesses described how the turbans drove into the predominantly Christian town on Sunday night, attacked a cop shoppe and then hotels and homes. The gunnies also singled out non-Mohammedans for execution, sparing Mohammedan men as well as women and kiddies. "They arrived and asked people to get out. They asked them to lie down, and then they shot them one by one, right in the head, one after another," said David Waweru, who was watching a World Cup match in a cafe but managed to hide behind a house when the Mpeketoni attack started. Shabaab said the attack was further retaliation for Kenya's military presence in Somalia as well as the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Mohammedans in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Mohammedan scholars".