di 22 feb 2015, 14:01

Muslims protect christians from attack on bus in Kenya

MOMBASA –

In an attack by Somali islamists on a bus in Kenya on Monday two people were killed. That had to be more, but muslim passengers refused to their christian fellow travelers betrayed.

Militants of al-Shabaab
Photo: REUTERS

That says one of the passengers against Reuters news agency. The al-Shabaab militants were holding up the bus in Mandera, in the northeast of the country. Then went to 10 of them on board and carried the passengers on to christians.

That she refused, however. “We even gave our clothes to non-muslims so that they are not so easily recognized,” says passenger Abdi Mohamud Abdi told Reuters. “We supported each other.”

Then threatened the Somalis everyone to shoot, but still refused to accept the passengers. “Eventually they gave up and left them. They said that they are yet to return.”

A spokesman of the local authorities confirms the story of the man. Al-Shabaab said that the attackers fired at the bus unloaded, and that “some christian enemies were killed and other injured.”

Last year there was a similar attack on a bus place in the same area. Were 28 non-muslim passengers were executed. From then get buses with a police escort, but that was in this case not so because the bus is a police office drove past was.