Two people died while three others were injured this morning after a bus travelling from Nairobi to Mandera was attacked by suspected Al-Shabaab militants. Deputy county commissioner Julius Otieno said the 7am attack happened between dabacity and borehole II .Otieno refuted reports that the bus had been hijacked. He said the attackers asked the passengers to alight from the vehicle and attempted to separate Muslims and non-Muslims. Mandera governor Ali Roba who spoke to the us by phone said the local passengers stood together with the non-locals refusing to separate and dared the attackers to either kill all of them or leave. A lorry that was behind the bus was also attacked in the morning incident. He said intelligence reports from local pastoralist communities indicate that more than 200 Al-Shabaab have crossed into Kotulo from Somalia in the past three weeks.