Nyeri village that has lost 40 to Al Shabaab

Friends and relatives of the 12 victims killed when gunmen attacked a guest house in Mandera County break down after identifying the bodies at the Chiromo mortuary in Nairobi. Ten people were rescued from the lodging, which had several occupants. [Photo: David Njaaga/Standard]

Three more families from Nyeri are mourning the Tuesday dawn killing of their relatives in an attack on a guest house in Mandera, bringing the total accounted deaths to seven.

Chaka, which is renown in Nyeri for quarry work, has born the brunt of terror attacks in Mandera, which have killed more than 40 people.