Credit: omer sukru goksu/Getty Images(NAIROBI, Kenya) — An attack on a bus in northern Kenya left 28 people dead at the hands of terror group al-Shabab.
The Kenya Red Cross confirmed the attack, for which gunmen from the Somali militant group claimed responsibility. BBC News reports that the gunmen asked passengers to read from the Koran, and those who failed were shot in the head. Some Somali passengers were shot after they pleaded with the gunmen to spare the other passengers’ lives.
Al-Shabab has been responsible for numerous attacks in Kenya in recent years, including the shooting at the Westgate Mall in September 2013, in which at least 61 civilians were killed.
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