NAIROBI, Dec 7 — Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus on Friday near the border with Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office said on Saturday. The vehicle belonging to the Medina Bus Company was...
An injured women rescued from the rubble is carried by rescuers at the scene where a building collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya December 6, 2019. — Reuters pic
NAIROBI, Dec 7 — Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus on Friday near the border with Somalia, President UhuruThe vehicle belonging to the Medina Bus Company was attacked on a lonely stretch of road in the Kotulo area as it travelled between the towns of Wajir and Mandera.Police said 10 people had been killed and that the attackers had specifically targeted non-Somalis after flagging down the bus.
He said security forces were pursuing the gunmen and that the driver and conductor of the bus were in custody and helping with investigations. Al Shabaab said it had carried out the attack and that it had killed 10 people including “secret security agents and government employees”.many times since the East African nation sent troops across the border to fight the militants in their homeland in October 2011. — Reuters
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