A group of Muslim passengers on a bus in Mandera, Kenya are being praised for refusing to be divided from Christian passengers.
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Reports indicate the attackers’ attempt to separate Christians and Muslims failed when Muslims aboard the bus wrapped themselves around Christians colleagues daring the attackers to kill or spare them all.
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‘We even gave non-Muslims our religious attire to wear in the bus so that they would not be identified easily. “We stuck together tightly”, Abdi said. We have insisted we have no problem with our Christian brothers. They said the militants “to kill them together or leave them alone”.
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Two people have been killed after suspected Islamic extremists shot at vehicles in Mandera, northern Kenya.
Two people were left dead, one of whom tried to flee after the passengers were forced off of the bus, while three people were injured.
Another witness said the Muslims lied to the militants that a police lorry was escorting the bus and that they would come under attack if they continued with their mission.
The majority of the local population in the northeastern region of Kenya are Muslims of Somali origin, and they have suffered huge economic losses due to Al Shabab attacks. The attack killed one person and seriously injured several others.
However, the passengers, who were mostly women, refused.
The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has carried out fatal retaliatory attacks against Kenya. “There have been multiple cases of this, where all the Christians are then murdered once they’re separated, and the Muslims are set free”. Many of them were killed while in prayer. Despite his claims, authorities did not confirm whether the victims were Christian or Muslim.
Though al-Shabab is based in Somalia, the group stepped up its cross-border violence after Kenya sent troops into Somalia to help fight the militants in 2011. Buses traveling in the area generally have a police escort, but the escort for the bus that was attacked Monday had broken down.
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In April, four Shabaab militants massacred 148 people at the Garissa University in Kenya’s northeast, in what was the group’s deadliest single attack to date.
