2019 Kenya bus shooting

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2019 Kenya bus shooting
Part of Somali–Kenyan conflict
Wajir County in Kenya.svg
LocationWargadadud and Kutulu, Wajir County, Kenya
Date6 December 2019 (2019-12-06)
WeaponsGuns
Deaths11
Injured4
Perpetrators Al-Shabaab

On 6 December 2019, at least 11 people, including seven police officers, were shot dead on or outside a bus in Kenya. [1] The Medina Bus Company vehicle and its passengers were attacked on a road in a rural area between Wajir and Mandera in northeastern Kenya. [1] Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. [1] [2]

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Background

The Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has been opposed to Kenyan involvement in the Somali Civil War. [3] The terrorist group has previously attacked the suburb of Westlands during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack, [4] which left 67 people dead. In 2015, Al-Shabaab terrorists were involved in mass shooting of Garissa University College students leaving 147 dead and many others injured. [5] In 2019 two attacks occurred in the same month of each other, including the attack on January 15, 2019, an attack on a hotel in Nairobi which killed 21 individuals. The second attack happened in less than two weeks near a Kenya Cinema bus stop which injured two individuals. [6]

Attack

Gunmen associated with Al-Shabaab killed 11 people including seven Kenya Police officers on a bus traveling through Wargadadud and Kutulu in Wajir, Kenya. [7] [8]

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