Yesterday 48 people, today nine. Oh, and NY Post? They’re not just “extremists”, they are Islamic extremists, like the kind attacking and terrorizing in not just in Kenya, but also Nigeria, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, China, and elsewhere.
Via NY Post:
Extremists attacked a coastal area of Kenya for the second night in a row, killing at least nine people a day after the deaths of nearly 50, an official said Tuesday.
Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said that al-Shabab militants attacked Majembeni village. The Somali militant group also claimed responsibility for the Sunday night attack in nearby Mpeketoni that killed 48 people.
The back-to-back attacks underscore the weak security around the Lamu area, which lies just south of the Somali border. Lamu once attracted swarms of foreign visitors but its tourist sector has been suffering in recent years because of increasing violence.
On Sunday night the gunmen went door to door demanding to know if the men inside were Muslim and if they spoke Somali. If the extremists did not like the answers, they opened fire.
The U.S. ambassador made Kenya’s entire coastal region off-limits for embassy employees after the attack.