Police in northeastern Kenya say al-Shabab gunmen have ambushed a bus and killed 28 non-Muslims who were singled out from the 60 passengers on the bus.
Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamists have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for recent raids Kenyan security forces carried out on mosques in Mombasa.
Authorities say the militants seized the bus Saturday 50 kilometers from the town of Mandera near Kenya’s border with Somalia.
Kenya has been hit by a series of gun and bomb attacks blamed on Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in 2011.
Kenyan troops are part of the African Union Mission in Somalia that is bolstering Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government against the al-Shabab insurgency.
