Devout Muslims shot and decapitate 34 non-Muslims in Kenya in unprovoked attack

Al-Shabaab rebels have murdered at least 36 Kenyan quarry workers near the country’s northern border with Somalia, police have confirmed.
The gunmen crossed over the border and divided the Muslim and non-Muslim workers into two groups before opening fire.
Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo confirmed the massacre took place early on Tuesday in Mandera County.
Kenyan soldiers gather around the bodies of victims at the quarry near Mandera
Bodies lay on the floor after murder of Kenyan quarry workers

Kenya police say that at least 36 quarry workers were killed in the attack

Al-Shabaab lined up the non-Muslim workers, pictured, and shot them dead during this morning’s massacre

The gunmen crossed over the border and divided the Muslim and non-Muslim workers into two groups before opening fire

Al-Shabaab have been raiding Mandera County on the Somali-Kenyan border killing non-Muslims

He has now been removed from his post, along with the Kenyan interior minister.

President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address to the nation that he had replaced interior minister Joseph Ole Lenku, and accepted a ‘retirement request’ from Kimaiyo.

Kenyatta named opposition politician and retired army general Joseph Nkaissery to be the new Interior Minister.

Police sources said the workers were ambushed as they slept in the camp at the Korome quarry. The non-Muslim workers were singled-out and killed.

Eyewitnesses claimed that 32 of the victims had been shot while the final four had been decapitated.

Mandera county governor Ali Roba said: ‘It is sad that we have another 36 people who were attacked and killed late last night in the same manner it happened on a bus recently. It happened at a quarry about 10 miles from Mandera town.’

Some 28 people were killed in the area last month when al Shabaab militants hijacked a Nairobi-bound bus, causing widespread anger. Kenya has suffered a string of gun and grenade attacks since it sent troops into Somalia to fight al Shabaab in late 2011.

Eyewitnesses claimed that 32 of the victims had been shot while the final four had been decapitated

Members of the military gather near the bodies of some of the victims

Quarry workers who were absent at the time of the attack sit at their camp after coming back to work in the morning and finding their colleagues murdered

Security officers talk as they stand next to a mosquito net used by a worker who slept at the quarry that was attacked

A local peace activist (right) talks with a police officer (centre) and a Kenya Red Cross worker (left) at the quarry

Kenyan mortuary attendants carry in the bodies of the massacre victims

Grief-stricken: Waithera Nderitu, who lost her brother at the quarry

Rescue workers walk near a Nairobi-bound bus that was ambushed outside Mandera town, near Kenya’s border with Somalia and Ethiopia, November 22, 2014. Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents said they staged the bus attack in northeast Kenya on Saturday that killed 28 people, all non-Muslims led out to be shot while passengers identified as Muslims were spared.Three in the group trooped out to be killed saved their lives by reciting Koran verses for the Islamist militants, a local security official said. REUTERS/Stringer (KENYA – Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW RELIGION)

The 28 non-Muslims were lined up by alShabaab and shot dead before the terrorists returned to Somalia