Al-Shabab has said it carried out a deadly bus attack on Kenya’s coast that killed seven people, the latest in a series in the region that have left almost 100 dead.
In a statement on Saturday, the Somalia-based group said the attack near Witu in Lamu Country was “a clear response to the government of Kenya’s false claim that they beefed up security in the area”.
The group’s military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told the AFP news agency that the group was “ready to act or attack anywhere necessary within Kenya”.
Miiri Njenga, the police commissioner of Lamu County, said attackers hijacked the bus, which was travelling to Lamu from the tourist resort of Malindi, a 220km journey.
Daniel Kahosho, the head of Kenya Police Reservists in Mpeketoni, told the Reuters news agency the attackers blocked the bus with their car and then sprayed it with bullets…
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