List of mass shootings in Kenya

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This article is a list of mass shootings in Kenya. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties.

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The data includes casualties of perpetrators, including self-inflicted gunshot or shooting of a perpetrator by police. The treatment of perpetrator casualties is at variance to some but not all definitions of a mass shooting used in the United States. The inclusion of injured victims in the data is also at variance with some of the US definitions that only include dead victims. However, the above treatment is consistent with that used in other Wikipedia lists of mass shootings by country.

Mass shootings in Kenya are mostly perpetrated by bandits, and are usually motivated by access to resources and cattle. Cattle rustling and banditry are common, as is retaliatory bandit attacks against locals and police.

21st century

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
7 April 2025 Meru County 3several5+Gun battle with bandits. [1]
23 March 2025 Garissa 6410An Al-Shabaab attack on a Kenyan police station. [2]
27 February 2025 Samburu County 21012Bus under police escort is fired upon by bandits. [3]
6 July 2024Mutuati, Igembe North, Meru County505Bandits Attack Police and Herders. [4]
16 August 2023 Garissa 606Clan clash. [5]
12 - 13 June 2023Meru County505Bandit attack. [6]
12 April 2023 Baringo County 134Bandit attack. [7]
6 April 2023Lami Nyeusi, West Pokot County 505Bandit attack. [8]
11 March 2023 Turkana County 044Bandit attack. [9]
4 March 2023Kalemngorok, Turkana County 246Bandit raid. [10]
17 December 2022Ngarenddare, Oldonyiro, Isiolo County 235Retaliatory bandit attack. [11]
25 September 2022 Turkana County 11011Bandit attack leads to eleven deaths including eight police officers [12]
10 June 2022Isiolo County167Bandit attack. [13]
1 May 2022 Turkana County 099Bus fired upon by bandits. [14]
8 April 2022Isiolo County9413Bandit attack. [15]
26 February 2022 Kerio Valley 808Ambush by bandits. [16]
17 February 2022 Elgeyo Marakwet County 11516Armed bandits attack three school buses. [17]
31 January 2022 Mandera County 101323 2022 Mandera attack: Following the bombing of a bus, Al-Shabaab militants attacked the damaged bus and shot people, injuring and killing several. [18]
4 December 2021 Mandera 21214Al-Shabaab militants ambushed a lorry carrying 20 officers on the Rhamu-Mandera Road, killing two police officers and injurinh at least 12 others. [19]
10 November 2021 Laikipia Conservancy404Bandits shot and kill two General Service Unit (GSU) and two Kenyan Defence force officers. [20]
21 July 2021Kerio Valley505Retaliatory bandit attack. [21]
20 June 2021Isiolo County505Bandit attack. [22]
6 December 2019Wargadadud and Kutulu, Wajir County 11415 2019 Kenya bus shooting: A gunmen associated with militant group Al-Shabaab shot and killed eleven people including seven Kenya Police officers on a bus. [23] [24]
15 - 16 January 2019 Westlands District, Nairobi 27 [n 1] 3057 Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack: Four attackers associated with Harakat Al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen carried out a mass shooting for over 22 hours which left 21 civilians, one Kenyan soldier and some 30 injured.
21 November 2018 Kilifi County 055Bandit attack in Kilifi and kidnapping of Italian national. [25] [26]
14 March 2017 Tiaty, Baringo County11011Bandit attack. [27]
21 December 2015Near village of El Wak 235A man shot and killed two people and injured three others injured in an attack on a bus. [28] [29] [30]
4 May 2015Turkana-East Pokot border4730+77+Bandit attack on Turkana-East Pokot border village. [31] [32] [33]
2 April 2015 Garissa 14879+227 Garissa University College attack: Four gunmen of militant groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab stormed the Garissa University College where they shot and killed 148 people, injured at least 79 and took 700 students hostage. [34] [35] [36]
15 March 2015 Mandera 437Bandit attack. [37]
22 November 2014 Mandera 28028Approximately 100 Gunmen shot and kill 28 people. The armed men stopped the bus and divided individuals into two groups of Somalis and non Somali, before the shooting. [38]
2 November 2014Turkana County22022Bandit shot and killed 22 people including 20 police officers. [39]
6 July 2014 Lamu County 909 July 2014 Kenya attacks: Two separate mass shooting attacks perpetrated by Al-Shabaab. [40]
Tana River County 20020
15 June 2014 Mpeketoni 60+60+ Mpeketoni attacks: Militant group Al-Shabaab shot and killed at least 60 people. [41]
4 April 2014Turkana County549Bandit attack. [42]
10 December 2013 Liboi 808Eight killed in unknown attack [43]
21 September 2013 Westlands District, Nairobi 71~200271 Westgate shopping mall attack: Four masked gunmen associated with militant group Al-Shabaab attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, where they shot and killed 62 civilians, five Kenyan soldiers and approximately wounded 200 people. [44] [45] [46]
10 November 2012 Samburu County 37441Bandit attack on police and homeguard. [47]
30 May 2012 Liboi 044Four policemen injured in bandit attack. [48]
14 October 2011Tractor village, Ngaremara Division, Isiolo County7Unknown7+Bandit attack. [49]
18 September 2008Samburu North District325Bandit attack. [50]
12 July 2005 Marsabit District 56Unknown56 Turbi massacre: A force of around one thousand Borana bandits conducted a series of six raids on Gabra villages where they shot and killed fifty-six people.
5 September 2002Isiolo County6Several8+Bandit attack. [51]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Including the perpetrator or suspect

References

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  2. ↑ "Al-Shabab attack on Kenyan police station kills 6". Arab News. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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  7. ↑ "Bandits kill herder, injure three in fresh attack in Baringo". Nation. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
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