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15 more killed as gang strikes three villages

Lamu, Kenya: Fifteen more people were killed in Lamu Tuesday as the gunmen who butchered over 50 people in Mpeketoni on Sunday terrorised three villages.

Several women were also kidnapped and are still missing as the wave of violence, which Al Shabaab claimed responsibility on Monday but which the Government Tuesday blamed on a section of politicians, assumed new proportions, brutality and tactics of Nigeria’s Boko Haram.

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