Al-Shabab militants behead nine civilians in southeastern Kenya

‘Suspected Takfiri al-Shabab terrorists have decapitated at least nine people in an attack on a pair of villages in southeastern Kenya, near the border with restive Somalia.
The deadly attack was carried out overnight on Saturday, when some 15 suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants stormed the two neighboring villages of Jima and Poromoko in the Kenyan coastal district of Lamu, near the Somali border, gathering their civilian victims together before beheading them, Kenyan local police and officials said.
A senior police officer at police headquarters in the capital Nairobi, speaking on the condition of anonymity, also confirmed the brutal incident. “It is true, we have lost nine people in today’s attack,” he said, without providing further details.
According to villagers, most of the heavily armed assailants appeared to be ethnic Somalis. The victims “were slaughtered like chickens”, said a villager, who witnessed the incident.’
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