Local police sources confirmed on June 25 that Al-Shabaab jihadists had killed five civilians in eastern Kenya, some of whom were beheaded.
According to the source, the attack occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on June 24 local time (11:30 p.m. the same day Hanoi time) in the two villages of Juhudi and Salama in Lamu County, bordering Somalia. The source stated: “Five people were killed. The victims were hacked to death and others were beheaded.”
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Gunmen from the extremist Islamist group Al-Shabaab at a training site on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Illustrative photo |
Based in Somalia - Kenya's eastern neighbor, the jihadist rebels Al-Shabaab, a branch of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, have been waging a bloody rebellion against the Somali government for more than 15 years.
In 2011, Kenya first sent troops to Somalia to support the fight against Al-Shabaab and is now a key contributor to the African Union's military campaign against the militant group.
However, Kenya has also suffered a series of reprisal attacks by Al-Shabaab, including the bloody siege at Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in 2013, which left 67 people dead, and an attack on Garissa University that killed 148 people in 2015.
A Ugandan armed group that killed dozens of schoolchildren last week is expanding its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo with funding from the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), according to a report on June 20 by several United Nations envoys.
According to VnExpress
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