“They refused to separate from non-Muslims and told the attackers to kill all passengers or leave”, Roba said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Christian leaders have hailed as an act of bravery and selflessness the shielding of some Christians by Muslims after suspected al-Shabab gunmen in Mandera County ambushed a passenger bus.
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Last year, al-Shabab gunmen attacked a bus full of teachers in the same region, pulling 28 non-Muslim passengers from the vehicle and shooting them point blank, according to the Guardian.
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“The locals showed a sense of patriotism and belonging to each other”, Mandera governor Ali Roba told Kenya’s Daily Nation.
An Islamic terrorist group’s attack on a bus in Kenya was foiled when passengers refused to be split into Muslim and Christian groups, a local leader said.
The attack shocked Kenya and led to a shake-up of security ministers. “They are notorious for doing this [type of attack] several times: separating Muslims and Christians by those who can recite the Qur’an and those who can’t”.
In December 2014 al-Shabab killed 36 non-Muslim quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera.
Deputy commissioner Julius Otieno confirmed Abdi’s story, saying the militants, “were trying to identify who were Muslims and who were not”.
Tragically, a Christian man who attempted to flee was shot and killed, as was a driver of a truck following the bus.
Owino said that in addition to the two deaths, four people were wounded.
Al Shabaab is Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia and regularly storms buses.
A number of Muslims reportedly risked their lives to save fellow Christian passengers in a Kenyan bus attack by Islamist radicals, which left two people dead.
Saleh said the attackers first sprayed bullets at the Makkah Bus in an effort to stop it in vain, killing one person on board.
Some of the Muslim passengers gave non-Muslims headscarves to try and hide their identities when the bus stopped.
“Some of the Christian enemies died and others were injured”, he said.
“Yesterday morning there was an attack in Mandera involving a passenger bus and a lorry”. The militants did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Muslim passengers’ actions during the attack.
The group is known to be pro-active in the northeastern parts of Kenya.
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Kenya has been grappling with attacks from al-Shabaab for a few years now ever since it sent its army in Somalia to defeat the group.
