Why Mpeketoni residents are still hurting over bloodletting that shocked Kenya

Residents and security officers view bodies of slain Al Shabaab militants and weapons recovered from them at the Mpeketoni hospital mortuary. (Photo: Maarufu Mohammed/Standard)

Towards the first anniversary of the mid-June 2014 carnage in Mpeketoni and adjoining villages in Lamu and Tana River counties, the fog of new terror attack fear has been gathering in these troubled areas. Again.

And as sure as night follows day, militants believed to be Al-Shabaab attacked two places in Lamu and left death, despair and frustration in its wake.