Thursday, 27th October 2011
By Standard Reporters and Agencies
Eight
people have been killed in a grenade attack on a bus in Mandera town,
North-eastern Kenya by suspected al shabaab militia.
The
militia are said to have sprayed the bus ferrying KCSE exam papers with
bullets before lobbing a grenade that instantaneously exploded killing
all on board. Those killed include Lafey secondary school headmaster,
the district education officer, and two Kenya police reserve among
others. The attack happened 100 kilometres from Mandera town.
This is the third grenade attack in the past five days bringing the death toll in suspected al shabaab related attacks to 9.
"We
have received a report of a banditry attack in Mandera District about
110 km from Mandera town involving a vehicle carrying government
officials among others," police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said.
Kiraithe said the District Police Commander and his security team were proceeding to the scene of the attack.
Mandera
is in Kenya's sparsely populated far northeast, close to the porous
borders with Ethiopia and Somalia. Kenyan troops deployed into anarchic
Somalia 12 days ago in an offensive against al-Shabaab militants blamed
for a series of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and frequent cross-border
incursions.
Al Shabaab had warned it would strike back.
Two
separate grenade attacks in the capital Nairobi on October 24, killed
one person and wounded more than 20. A Kenyan man pleaded guilty
on October 26 to one of the attacks and being a member of al Shabaab,
the Somali Islamist group.
Elgiva Bwire Oliacha at the Milimani Law Courts where he pleaded guilty to being a member of Al Shabaab and engaging in 
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