“The Muslims stood with the Christians and dared the attackers to kill them all or leave”, Mandera Governor Ali Roba told Anadolu Agency.
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He says he was told that the Muslims told the militants, “no. You’re not going to separate us”.
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“The militants threatened to shoot us but we still refused and protected our brothers and sisters”, he added. “After realizing it was not police, they stopped the lorry as we dashed back into the bus and sped off”. It is not clear, as of this writing, if the people killed in the bus attack are Muslims or Christians.
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Abdrirahman Hussien, a 28-year-old teacher who was also on the bus, gave a similar account.
The majority of the local population in the north-east are Kenyan Muslims of Somali descent, and they have been hit hard by the consequences of al-Shabab attacks, even if non-Muslims are supposedly the main target of the Somali militant group. It has launched a series of attacks in Kenya, since Kenyan forces went into Somalia to battle the extremists in 2011.
“Some of the Christian enemies died and others were injured”, he told Reuters in a statement. In December 2014, for example, the group carried out a similar bus on an attack in Nairobi, separating Muslims from Christians and executing the Christians.
In April, the extremist group killed around 150 people when it attacked the campus of Garissa University College in Kenya.
No other casualties were reported as the bravery of the Muslim passengers kept everyone safe.
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The Muslim passengers refused to do so and hid Christians behind bags. We alighted but one person attempted to run away and was shot dead. From Kotulo, armed police officers normally provide escort services to Mandera but the driver of the bus reportedly left without security escort.
An unnamed local police official told AP that one passenger had fooled the assailants, telling them that a police escort was not far behind the bus.
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Kenya’s poorly-guarded northeastern border with Somalia is considered a security weak spot for the country. The Somali-based al-Shabab has claimed responsibilities for the attack.
