The gory of the attack is not the focus, rather a rare and daring display of unity against religious extremism. The bus was traveling from Nairobi to Mandera.
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“We stuck together tightly”, Abdi Mohamud Abdi, a Muslim passenger aboard the vehicle, told Reuters. Some Muslims gave the non-Muslims their garments, as well as headscarves to cover themselves so that the terrorists would not easily identify them. “We need to live as brothers and sisters with a common goal”.
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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. Those passengers who could not recite a passage from the Koran were forced to lie in a field and were shot to death while the Muslim passengers were allowed to reboard the bus. “Our team is tracking the attackers”, Mr Otieno said.
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The officer said the lie about the police escort prompted the extremists to order everyone back on the bus and told them to drive off.
A few hours into the journey without police escorts, the bus came under fire.
It will be interesting to see if their actions embolden local populations to increase their resistance to al-Shabab, which has attacked the area several times. As the attackers started separating passengers according to their religions, we heard the sound of an oncoming lorry (a heavy-duty truck).
Al-Shabaab militants are known for launching a sudden raid, singling out Christians and killing them.
“The locals showed a sense of patriotism and belonging to each other”, Mandera governor Ali Roba told Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper. Unfortunately, two people, one aboard the bus and one in the lorry were killed.
Al-Shabab has been carrying out attacks into Kenya ever since the latter entered Somalia in 2011 in an attempt to drive off the militants.
Al-Shabaab, a Somali group the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization, wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state.
Known as one of the world’s oldest and biggest refugee camps, the Kenyan government claims it is also a breeding ground for Somali extremists planning on lauching attacks against Kenya.
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Al-Shabaab has said it will continue its attacks on Kenya until Nairobi withdraws troops from an African Union force fighting the militants in Somalia.
