WATCH ABOVE: Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for an attack in Kenya in which 19 males and nine women, all non-Muslim, were singled out and killed.
NAIROBI, Kenya – Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, Al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for a Saturday dawn attack on a bus in which 28 non-Muslims were singled out and killed.
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack through its radio station in Somalia, saying it was in retaliation for raids by Kenyan security forces carried out earlier this week on four mosques at the Kenyan coast.
Nineteen men and nine women were killed in the bus attack, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo.
The bus travelling to the capital Nairobi with 60 passengers was hijacked about 50 kilometres from the town of Mandera near Kenya’s border with Somalia, said two police officers.
The two officers said the bus was first waved down but it didn’t stop so the gunmen sprayed it with bullets and when that didn’t work they shot a rocket propelled grenade at it, the officers said.
The gunmen commandeered the bus off the road and ordered all the passengers out of the vehicle and separated those who appeared to be non-Muslims from the rest and shot them at close range, the officers said.
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