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 Somalia's al Shabaab claims responsibility for northeast Kenya bus
attack
It was not immediately clear who the attackers were.
"Bandits ambushed a bus from Mandera that was heading to Nairobi at
dawn and killed 28 passengers of the 60 that were in the bus," the
ministry said on its Twitter feed.
Police Spokesman Masoud Mwinyi confirmed the incident.
The government-run National Disaster Operations Centre said on its
Twitter feed that the attack took place some 30 km from the town of
Mandera.
 Tensions have escalated in Mandera County, near the border with
Ethiopia and Somalia, in the past year as clashes between clans have
displaced hundreds of people.
The region is awash with guns due to its proximity to Somalia, where
al Shabaab has been fighting to topple the government, and Ethiopia,
from where the armed Oromo Liberation Front has made incursions into
Kenya.
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The attack underscores fears over the lack of security, especially
in the remote parts of northern Kenya.
In early November, gunmen killed 20 police officers and two police
reservists in an ambush in Turkana county in the northwest of Kenya.
(Reporting by George Obulutsa and Humphrey Malalo; editing by Jane
Baird)
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