Eight Persons Dead In Kenya Bus Attack

Eight people have been killed in a bus attack in northeast Kenya, staged by the Somali Islamist Shebaab group.

The Presidential Spokesperson made this in statement, saying that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had been briefed on the “brutal” murders of eight people, including police, during the jihadist attack in Wajir county.

According to a Senior Police officer: “We lost seven police officers in the bus attack.”

A police statement released on Friday evening gave no casualty figure.

It said that the bus which linked the towns of Wajir and Mandera, came under attack about 17:30 local time (1430 GMT).

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“Security forces are pursuing the killers,” the state house spokesperson said, adding, “the government will not relent in its ruthless crackdown on criminal elements including suspected terrorists”.

The area where the attack took place borders Somalia, which is regularly the scene of Shebaab raids.

On June 15, at least eight police officers were killed in similar circumstances in Wajir county.

Home-made weapons and bombs have been used to kill dozens of police and soldiers in the northern and eastern border regions, where such attacks are relatively common.

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