Six killed in suspected Shabaab attack

Six people were killed in a suspected attack by Shabaab militants on a residential compound in the restive northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera, police and local authorities said Thursday. The attack targeted a gated residential building which mainly housed non-ethnic Somalis and non-Muslims, less than a kilometre from the volatile Somalia border town of Beled […]

Six people were killed in a suspected attack by Shabaab militants on a residential compound in the restive northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera, police and local authorities said Thursday.
The attack targeted a gated residential building which mainly housed non-ethnic Somalis and non-Muslims, less than a kilometre from the volatile Somalia border town of Beled Hawa.
“We have suffered yet another attack in Mandera and sadly we have lost six people,” Governor Ali Roba said in a statement.
Police chief Joseph Boinnet said that there were 33 people inside the compound when the attack took place in the early hours of the morning.