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2019-12-08 Africa Subsaharan
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At least 10 killed in Kenya bus attack claimed by al-Shabab
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 [Aljazeera] Seven police officers among the dead after gunmen attacked a bus in northeast Kenya, local media reported.
The vehicle belonging to the Medina Bus Company was attacked on Friday on a lonely stretch of road in the Kotulo area as it travelled between the towns of Wajir and Mandera, close to the border with Somalia.
The Somalia-based al-Shabab armed group, which has also carried out a number of attacks in neighbouring Kenya, took responsibility for the assault, saying it had killed people that included "secret security agents and government employees".
Police said 10 people had been killed and that the attackers had specifically targeted non-Somalis after flagging down the bus. The area is mostly inhabited by ethnic Somali Kenyans.
Seven police officers were killed in the attack, local media reported. A security source gave the same figure to the AFP news agency.
Witnesses said the attackers had shot all the victims outside the bus at close range, but police and the government did not comment on those accounts. 
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