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Kimaiyo and Lenku hit after second massacre in Mandera

By Ally Jamah | Dec. 3, 2014

Peris Wairimu is overcome by grief upon learning of her brother Ndirangu who, among 36 people killed in Mandera on Tuesday night. (PHOTO: MOSE SAMMY/STANDARD)

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku and Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo became casualties of spiraling insecurity after gunmen again killed 36 people in Mandera.

The slaughter of the quarry workers at 2am at a mine in Koromey, some 10 kilometres from Mandera town at dawn on Tuesday, coming 10 days after Al-Shabaab militia killed 28 people in the same region bordering Somalia, forced the security shake-up.

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