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Mandera terror attack: How Muslims saved us

For more than 20 years, 46-year-old Shukri Farah has worked as a driver of buses plying the Mandera-Nairobi route. He, however, says Monday’s events will forever remain etched in his mind. He was transporting more than 60 passengers  from Nairobi on a journey that started at 11.00 am.

They were in a bus labelled Makkah, and he recalls how the passengers were engaged in animated conversation, as is typical of long-distance drivers.

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