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We will be dead if nobody rescues us, miners in another Mandera quarry tell Kenyan Government

Al-Shabaab fighters during a military drill. Miners in a quarry that is 30km away from Monday's attack site want to be evacuated.

As news of the massacre of 36 quarry workers streamed in yesterday, at least 30 miners who were in a separate quarry want to be evacuated.

John Kung'u and John Omuolo said the miners are living in fear of attacks, adding that their colleagues fled the area following the attack on a bus where 28 people were killed, and Monday night attack that left 36 miners dead.

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