36 WAUAWA NA AL SHABAB KENYA

Baadhi ya Wanamgambo wa Al Shabab.

TAKRIBANI watu 36 wanahofiwa kufariki katika shambulio lililotokea kwenye machimbo ya kokoto karibu na mji wa Mandera kaskazini mwa Kenya. Shirika la Msalaba Mwekundu nchini Kenya limethibitisha.
Wakazi wa eneo hilo wamesema waathirika wote wa tukio hilo ni watu wasio Waislam ambao walikuwa wakifanya kazi katika machimbo hayo yaliyopo Kormey kilomita 15 kutoka mji wa Mandera Kaskazini mwa Kenya.
Tukio hili linafuatia tukio la wiki moja iliyopita ambapo watu wapatao 28 waliuawa katika shambulio la basi la abiria huko Mandera.
Kundi la wapiganaji wa Kiislam la Al Shabab limekiri kuhusika na mauaji hayo

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Al Shabaab militants raided a quarry in Kenya, separating non-Muslim workers from their Muslim counterparts and executing them.

At least 36 bodies were found Tuesday dumped in the quarry in the village of Kormey, near the Somalian border, the Kenyan Red Cross said.

Al Shabaab said the attack was retaliation for mosque raids that Kenyan security forces carried out last month to weed out extremists.

Kormey is about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the border city of Mandera, in an area where the Somalia-based Al Shabaab militants are known to operate.

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Last month, the Islamist militants ambushed a bus in Kenya and sprayed bullets on those who failed to recite Quran verses, killing at least 28 people, authorities said.

The bus, which had 60 people aboard, was heading from Mandera to the capital of Nairobi.

The group says the latest attacks are a response to the police raid on multiple mosques in the port city of Mombasa after explosives were found in one.

"Our Mujhahideen forces are always ready to launch frequent deadly cross-border attacks against Kenya as a revenge," the group said in a statement.

Deadly history

Al-Shabaab, which has ties to al Qaeda, has launched a series of attacks in Kenya since its forces went into neighboring Somalia in 2011 to battle the extremists.

Kenyan soldiers have targeted militants' hideouts across Somalia, prompting retaliatory attacks from the terror group.

Last year, Al-Shabaab raided a Nairobi mall in a brazen attack that killed 68 people and left shoppers under siege for days.

In addition to Kenya and Somalia, the terror group has struck Uganda, where it killed more than 70 people gathered to watch a World Cup soccer match in Kampala in 2010.

As the attacks get more daring, the international community has rallied to battle the militants.

In September, a U.S. airstrike killed Al-Shabaab's leader, Ahmed Godane. The terror group later replaced him and vowed to avenge his death