Gunmen kill 28 non-Muslim bus passengers in north-east Kenya attack; Al Shabaab claims responsibility
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“Gunmen have seized a bus in north-eastern Kenya near the Somali border and executed 28 non-Muslim passengers, police say.
Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamic extremist group, which carried out the September 2013 attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall that killed at least 67 people, claimed responsibility.
“I can confirm … that 28 innocent travellers were brutally executed by the Shebab,” regional police chief Noah Mwavinda said, referring to the Somali militant group.
He said the gunmen forced the bus to stop and drove it to the side of the road, where they proceeded to kill passengers identified as non-Muslim.
Passenger Ahmed Mahat told the BBC: “When we got down, passengers were separated according to Somali and non-Somalis.
“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.”
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