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Deadly attack in north-east Kenya Al-Shabab in deadly attack in Kenya's Mandera town
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Suspected al-Shabab militants have killed at least six people in an attack in north-east Kenya, the regional governor said. Militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it was behind the attack which killed at least six people and wounded one in north-eastern Kenya.
Ali Roba, governor of Mandera County, said one person had also been seriously injured in the attack. The militants threw a grenade before opening fire in a residential area in Mandera town, police said.
But security guards had been able to save 27 other people present at the public works site, he said. Mandera County governor Ali Roba confirmed the casualties, adding that security guards had saved 27 people.
Kenya's Daily Nation says the attack targeted "non-locals". Al-Shabab is headquartered in Somalia, and has carried out a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya.
Al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group, is battling the UN-backed government in Somalia, and has carried out a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya. "We have suffered another sad attack," Mr Roba said in a tweet.
Militants have carried out frequent attacks on the Mandera region, which borders Somalia. They target people who are not from the local area and security forces, Kenyan papers say. The raid took place in the early hours of Thursday in an area popular with people who came from outside Mandera town, reports the BBC's Ferdinand Omondi from Kenya.
Who are Somalia's al-Shabab? "From the nature and style of the attack, it will obviously be al-Shabab," Mr Roba told Reuters news agency.
Kenya's The Standard said the attack happened in the early hours of Thursday at a residential plot in Bulla public works.
Attackers used a grenade to break in and then shot at those inside, it reported, citing police.
"From the nature and style of the attack, it will obviously be al-Shabab," Governor Roba told Reuters news agency by telephone.
"If not for the quick response by our security forces, we would be talking of many more casualties now.""If not for the quick response by our security forces, we would be talking of many more casualties now."
Al-Shabab has been at war with Kenya ever since Kenyan forces entered Somalia in October 2011 in an effort to crush the al Qaeda-linked militants.
Kenyan troops are now part of the African Union mission in Somalia fighting the group.