Gunmen suspected to be part of the Al-Shabab terrorist
organization seized a bus in northeastern Kenya early
Saturday and killed 28 passengers.
A passenger who escaped told the BBC the 60 passengers on board were
separated into two groups, Somalis and non-Somalis. Those who could not cite
passages of the Quran were then executed.
The Kenya Red
Cross has confirmed the deaths and says they are working on transporting
the bodies to the county hospital.
Reports on how many gunmen there were varied; with the escaped passenger
telling the BBC there were about 10 who boarded the bus and a county
commissioner telling the Daily Nation there were about 100.
While not officially confirmed, the BBC says an Al-Shabab-linked
website has released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack and
saying it was in retaliation for Kenyan mosque raids in the southern port city
of Mombasa earlier this week.
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