This archive report was first published on 9 December 2019.
On December 9, 2019, a devastating attack unfolded in northern Kenya, where suspected al-Shabab extremists stopped a bus near the Somalia border and brutally killed eight passengers.
The victims, all non-Muslims, were identified as police officers returning to their stations in Elwak and Mandera.
According to a police report, the extremists singled out non-locals on the bus, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
Al-Shabab, a Somalia-based al-Qaida-linked extremist group, has claimed responsibility for the attack, citing Kenya's involvement in the fight against them in Somalia.
This heinous act is reminiscent of a similar attack in 2014, where al-Shabab hijacked a bus in Mandera County and killed 28 non-Muslims on board.
