“We stuck together tightly”, he said. In 2014, an al-Shabab attack similar to Monday’s killed 28 people and led to an exodus from the area of more than 2,000 teachers and health care workers. The militants fled after the attack.
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They gave the Christian women their hijabs and helped others hide behind bags in the bus, passenger Abdiqafar Teno told CNN.
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Al Shabab’s military spokesman Sheik Abdiasis Abu Musab said the group had staged an attack in Kenya in which gunmen fired shots at the bus.
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Originating from neighboring Somalia, al-Shabaab has been expanding its reach in Kenya since 2010.
Unfortunately, two people were killed and three people were injured during the attack, according to Deputy County Commissioner Julius Otieno. “They hid themselves in the group”, the person said. The group, which aims to make Somalia a fundamental Islamic state, say the attacks are in retaliation for Kenya’s participation in the African Union peacekeeping efforts in the war-torn country.
Last week, elders from Wargadud in Somalia were sent to Kenya to ask the militia to leave Mandera within 36 hours but the terrorists are said to have ignored the ultimatum. The militants did not respond to a request for further comment on the Muslim passengers’ behavior.
They told the almost 100 passengers to step out of the bus and ordered Muslims to separate from the one dozen Christians traveling with them, eyewitnesses said.
In previous attacks, Al-Shabaab has often killed both Muslims and non-Muslims. It killed two people should have.
While negotiating the impasse, a lorry came up behind the bus and spooked the attackers who hid behind a nearby bush suspecting that it was police officers. The Muslims refused to split from them when their bus was ambushed by the militants.
One of the victims was shot dead after trying to run away from the militants after passengers had been forced off the bus, the same employee told the BBC’s Bashkas Jugsodaay in Nairobi.
Joseph Nkaissery, Kenya’s interior cabinet secretary, said in this particular incident the police vehicle broke down and the bus continued the journey alone.
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Attacks by al-Shabab are now a semi-regular horror in Kenya’s eastern regions.
