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| Somali Militants Carry Out Deadly Attack in Northeast Kenya | Somali Militants Carry Out Deadly Attack in Northeast Kenya |
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| NAIROBI, Kenya — Shabab militants killed 14 people and wounded 11 in the northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest attack in the region by the Somali Islamist group. | NAIROBI, Kenya — Shabab militants killed 14 people and wounded 11 in the northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest attack in the region by the Somali Islamist group. |
| The attack took place around 2 a.m. at a camel market, according to residents, and most of the victims were miners from other parts of Kenya. | The attack took place around 2 a.m. at a camel market, according to residents, and most of the victims were miners from other parts of Kenya. |
| “I can confirm an Al Shabaab attack in Mandera early this morning,” the police inspector general, Joseph Boinnet, said on Twitter. “Regrettably 14 persons dead and 11 injured.” | |
| The Kenyan Red Cross said on Twitter that it had sent a team of doctors and paramedics from the capital, Nairobi, to evacuate the critically injured. | The Kenyan Red Cross said on Twitter that it had sent a team of doctors and paramedics from the capital, Nairobi, to evacuate the critically injured. |
| Mandera is in the northeastern corner of Kenya, along the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. | Mandera is in the northeastern corner of Kenya, along the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. |
| Last year, 28 teachers were killed as they were traveling in the region for the end-of-year holidays. Not long after that episode, dozens of miners were shot and killed after militants separated Muslims from non-Muslims. | |
| The deadliest attack attributed to the Shabab in Kenya took place in April, when 147 students and university staff members were killed at a university in Garissa. One of the militants in that assault came from Mandera, which is about 440 miles northeast of Garissa. | |
| Kenyan officials said this year they were constructing a security barrier that would stretch for miles along its border with Somalia, in an effort to deter attacks by the Shabab. | Kenyan officials said this year they were constructing a security barrier that would stretch for miles along its border with Somalia, in an effort to deter attacks by the Shabab. |