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NAIROBI. — At least 500 people have been killed in about 150 separate attacks from 2012 to June 2015 countrywide. Most of the deaths have been in Nairobi, Garissa and Mandera. Mandera has witnessed the highest number of attacks.
Between January 2012 and December last year, 312 people were killed. Nairobi had 113 deaths and Mandera accounted for 68.
Sixty-seven others were killed in Lamu County, according to the police.
On April 2, terrorists killed 148 people at Garissa University College, the highest toll in a single attack.
The Tuesday morning raid in Mandera occurred just five days after nine herders were shot dead by Al-Shabaab militants in the same county.
On July 2, at around 4pm, at Adan Jiro in Fino Location, 15 people who were tracking 26 camels that had gone astray were attacked while resting at a dam.
They were surrounded by gunmen who shot and killed the nine. The victims were identified as Mohammed Gabow Takoi 28, Mohammed Mohamud Ibrahim 50, Abdulahi Noor Maalim Aden 38, Abdi Ali Amed 45, Yusuf Abdirahim Ahmed 34, Muhamud Bare 28, Abdi Kuresh Maalim 40, Aden Abdulahi Aden, 37, and Abdi Ibrahim Yakub, 62, who was the owner of the dam. — Daily Nation.
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