Suspected members of the Somali
militant group al-Shabab have killed at
least 28 people in an attack on a bus
in northern Kenya, officials say.
The bus was travelling to the capital,
Nairobi, when it was stopped in Mandera
county, near the Somali border.
Gunmen separated out those they
thought were non-Muslim before killing
them, officials and witnesses said.
Al-Shabab, which has been mounting
attacks in Kenya since 2011, said it carried
out the attack.
A statement on a website linked to the
Islamist group carried a statement saying
the attack was carried out in retaliation
for security raids on mosques in the
coastal city of Mombasa earlier this week.
'Point blank'
One of the passengers on the bus, Ahmed
Mahat, told the BBC that there were
more than 60 passengers on board when
it was attacked, before dawn on Saturday,
about 30km (19 miles) from Mandera
town.
The driver tried to accelerate away, but
the vehicle became stuck in mud caused
by recent heavy rains, he said.
About 10 heavily armed men talking
Somali ordered the passengers off the
bus.
"When we got down, passengers were
separated according to Somali and non-
Somalis," Mr Mahat said.
"The non-Somalis were ordered to read
some verses of the holy Koran, and those
who failed to read were ordered to lie
down. One by one they were shot in the
head at point blank range."
Kenya's Red Cross said emergency
workers were trying to retrieve bodies
from the scene.
Security agencies were "in pursuit of the
criminal gang" that carried out the attack,
Kenya's interior ministry said. It described
the assailants as "bandits".
After the attack, a local official quoted by
Kenyan media said the government had
failed to answer their pleas for extra
security.
"This place has been prone to attacks,"
county official Abdullahi Abdirahman told
The Daily Nation.
"This is not the first time the government
has totally ignored us, and you can now
see the how many innocent precious lives
have been lost."
Mombasa raids
The attack comes after a week of
heightened tension in Mombasa, which
has suffered a series of al-Shabab attacks.
Security forces raided mosques in the
city, saying they were being used to store
weapons. The raids triggered apparent
revenge attacks by Muslim youths.
Kenya has experience a series of al-
Shabab attacks since it sent troops to
Somalia three years ago to help fight the
militant group.
Mandera, a remote area in Kenya's north-
east, has been one of the regions worst-
affected by the violence.
There was unrest in the area in June after
two clerics accused of belonging to al-
Shabab were shot dead. Residents
protested that the clerics had no links to
the group.http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30157581

too bad

Africans killing themselves for another man's religion again.

We should embrace paganism or atheism since they're the most peaceful religions now.

I can't stop wondering what the world will be like if Islam is done away with.. almost every part of the world where Muslims are,woeful n gory tales emanate.. is it that there re inciteful messages in their holy book that we just don't know??from Iraq to afghanistan, gaza to nigeria...







Isn't Islam supposed to be a religion of peace

This book is cursed!