NAIROBI, Kenya (The New York Times) — Shabab militants killed 14 people and wounded 11 in the northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest attack in the region by the Somali Islamist group.
The attack took place around 2 a.m. at a camel market, according to residents, and most of the victims were miners from other parts of Kenya.
“I can confirm an Al Shabaab attack in Mandera early this morning,” the police inspector general, Joseph Boinnet, said on Twitter. “Regrettably 14 persons dead and 11 injured.”
The Kenyan Red Cross said on Twitter that it had sent a team of doctors and paramedics from the capital, Nairobi, to evacuate the critically injured.
Mandera is in the northeastern corner of Kenya, along the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia.
Last year, 28 teachers were killed as they were traveling in the region for the end-of-year holidays. Not long after that episode, dozens of miners were shot and killed after militants separated Muslims from non-Muslims.
The deadliest attack attributed to the Shabab in Kenya took place in April, when 147 students anduniversity staff members were killed at a university in Garissa. One of the militants in that assault came from Mandera, which is about 440 miles northeast of Garissa.
Kenyan officials said this year they were constructing a security barrier that would stretch for miles along its border with Somalia, in an effort to deter attacks by the Shabab.
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