Five beheaded after a suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu past midnight
Suspected Alshabaab militants raid Salama and Juhudi villages in Lamu County leaving five victims dead
Suspected Alshabaab militants raid Salama and Juhudi villages in Lamu County leaving five victims dead.
Residents from the Salama-Kibaoni region in Lamu County are living in fear after armed goons raided their village in the wee hours of Sunday, June 25, morning.
Five people were killed and houses torched in what is suspected to be an Al-Shabaab attack.
According to reports, armed assailants raided the villages at around 7.30 pm on Saturday, dragged the victims from their houses, and tied their hands and legs with ropes behind their backs before executing them.
The victims of the Saturday night attack are men, including a Form Three Student from Bakanja Secondary School identified as Barack Hussein, 19, who had come home for a half-term break before meeting his death.
Contacted, Lamu County Commissioner, Louis Rono said he was aware of the attack at Salama village but had no further details.
“I have heard something has happened at Salama overnight. I am headed to the scene. I will give details once I reach there,” said Mr Rono.
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Pamela Akoth Ogutu, the aunt and guardian to the form 3 student said a group of over 30 men, armed with guns, pangas, and knives, and who wore military regalia, descended to her homestead at around 8 pm and ordered them to lie down without screaming.
Ms. Ogutu, her two nephews, a niece, and a woman neighbour were seated talking at her home when the men showed up.
She said after the incident, they were commanded to go back to one of the houses before the men went to the other house.
The Saturday attack also comes just a week after two Kenya Defense Forces Soldiers were killed and others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to have been planted on their route by Al-Shabaab militants at Mlima Faru along the Witu-Pandanguo road.
The attack also came a day after President William Ruto maintained that he harboured no regrets for his administration’s decision to open the Kenya-Somali border.
“It was and it still is the right decision because we have to confront the challenges of al Shabaab. We intend and have every chance to defeat the terror group,” the President insisted.
Apart from Lamu, the Somali-Kenya border was to be reopened at Mandera and Garissa entry points for the first time in over a decade.
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