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| Shaboobs kill 10 in Mpeketoni |
| 2014-06-19 |
| Fresh tension has erupted in Mpeketoni after ten more bodies were recovered Tuesday morning at Poromokoni village in Lamu county. Al shabaab has claimed responsibility for the fresh killings putting the death toll at 20, hours after government sent in troops to secure the area. "We carried out another attack last night. We killed 20 people, mainly police and Kenyan wildlife wardens. The commandos have been going to several places looking for military personnel," Shabaab's military spokesman, Abdulaziz Abu Musab, told AFP by telephone. There are also reports that several houses were burnt down in Mapenya village not very far from Mpeketoni town by the gang. It is still not clear whether the bodies are fresh or are the ones which were not recovered after the deadly attack by gunmen in Mpeketoni on Sunday in which 56 people lost their lives. Reports from the ground indicate that a team of security personnel have been dispatched to the village to assess the situation. Kenya Red The area affected is said to be near the site where the suspected gunmen burnt down the Nissan matatus they had travelled in before the bloody executions. The terror group, al Shabaab yesterday said the attack in Mpeketoni was revenge for Kenya's "brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars". Two suspects arrested Police have arrested two suspects in connection with Sunday's attack and a subsequent raid on Monday in Mpeketoni, Lamu County, that left more than 60 people dead. One suspect, Ahmed Abdallah, is alleged to be the owner of a vehicle said to have been used by the gunmen to perpetrate the attacks. Mr Abdallah is also claimed to be linked to Plot 270 land in Mpeketoni where some of the squatters living on it were killed and was Wednesday morning recording a statement with police. The second suspect, Salim Dyana, claimed to have been hired as a driver in one of the vehicles used in the attacks for Sh20,000, police said. The arrests came as Inspector General David Kimaiyo appointed a new District Administration Police commander Mr John Njenga Miiri, who has already taken charge of the situation. |
| Posted by:Steve White |