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300 people camp at Kenya Defence Forces airstrip seeking to leave Mandera

Top Government officials persuaded about 300 non-locals camped at the Kenya Defence Forces airstrip in Mandera not to flee the region.

The group included teachers, health workers and artisans who fled to the security installation on Monday fearing for their lives after Al-Shabaab terrorists on Saturday massacred 28 non-muslims pulled out of a Nairobi-bound bus.

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