Suspected Al Shabaab militants carjack and escape with 2 vehicles in Lamu

Lamu, Kenya: Suspected Al Shabaab militants Friday carjacked and escaped with two vehicles that had miraa near Kiunga border, Lamu County. The fate of five crew who were on board was not immediately known.

An agent in the area Abdulahi Liban said the gunmen struck at about midday as the four wheel drive vehicles were headed for Somalia and took them hostage. Liban said they later found several sacks of the miraa that the vehicles were carrying damped in the area few kilometers away from the scene of the attack.