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Five people were killed on Sunday when armed assailants attacked two villages in Lamu county in southeast Kenya, police said. Police described the incident as a "terrorist attack", a phrase they ...
About 11pm local time on 5 July 2014, about 12 men opened fire in a trading centre of Hindi, Lamu County. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The attackers also burned Government buildings and a church. [ 3 ] They targeted men, tying their victims up before shooting them in the head or slashing their throats with a knife.
The Camp Simba attack was a pre-dawn attack at Magagoni Airfield near Camp Simba on 5 January 2020. The camp is used by Kenyan and U.S. troops and is located near Manda Bay on the mainland of Lamu County, Kenya. The perpetrators were al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based Islamic extremist insurgent group.
After a short engagement on the perimeter of the base, the attack was repulsed, leaving 11 Al-Shabaab fighters and 2 Kenyan soldiers dead. [ citation needed ] The Al-Shabaab second-in-command was 25 year old British-born Thomas Evans ("Abdul Hakim"), who filmed the attack with a camera strapped to his body, and Evans died in the fighting.
Two foreign tourists and their Ugandan guide were killed when assailants attacked their vehicle near a national park in southwestern Uganda, a wildlife official and the police said Tuesday. Bashir ...
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The attack was the deadliest in Kenya since the 1998 United States embassy bombings, [4] and is the second deadliest overall, with more casualties than the 2002 Mombasa attacks, the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack, [5] the 2014 Nairobi bus bombings, the 2014 Gikomba bombings, the 2014 Mpeketoni attacks and the 2014 Lamu attacks.
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