Gunmen raid village, kill 14 in northeastern Nigeria
Over a dozen people have been killed in an attack by suspected al-Shabab militants on a village near the Kenyan border with Somalia, officials say.
“The attack occurred at a village near a large livestock market just outside the town” of Mandera in Kenya’s far northeastern region in the early hours of Tuesday, said a local police officer, whose name was not mentioned in the reports.
According to the source, 14 people were killed and 11 others wounded in the violence.
Mandera County Commissioner Alex Ole Nkoyo also confirmed the death toll and said people were sleeping when the assailants threw explosives inside their houses.
“These were al-Shabab from the nature of the attack. They used explosives and guns,” he said.
However, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Kenya Red Cross Secretary General Abbas Gullet said the victims were mainly “quarry workers.”
The Red Cross also said it was sending a medical airplane to evacuate the critically injured to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
The al-Shabab militants, who have been trying to overthrow the government in Somalia, have recently stepped up their attacks in neighboring Kenya.
Back in April, al-Shabab gunmen killed about 150 people, mostly students, at the Garissa University College campus in Kenya.
The government in Nairobi sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Somalia in late 2011 after al-Shabab carried out a series of raids inside Kenya.
The militants have vowed to continue their cross-border attacks until the government in Nairobi pulls its troops out of Somalia.
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