At least 14 people were killed in an attack early Tuesday in the country’s north by Al-Shabab, Islamic extremist rebels from neighboring Somalia, a Kenyan official said.
Eleven people had also been reported wounded in Soko Mbuzi village in Mandera County near Kenya’s border with Somalia, said Mandera County Commissioner Alex Nkoyo
The Somali-based militants, who are allied to Al-Qaida, have killed at least 85 people, all of them non-Muslims, in Mandera County in the last eight months.
Al Shabab has intensified their attacks in Kenya as a retaliation for the country sending troops to Somalia to fight the militants after Kenya sent its troops to Somalia in October 2011 following a series of cross border attacks
Somalia based militant group has done similar attacks in the recent past. In the most deadly, the group killed 148 people at a university in eastern Kenya’s Garissa County in April.
The Somali government, supported by the U.N. and backed by troops from African Union countries including Kenya, has pushed Al-Shabab out of Somalia’s major cities but the rebels still control some rural areas and carry out bombings and attacks on the capital, Mogadishu, and attacks on Kenyan targets.
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