8 killed in Kenya bus attack

Nairobi, December 7

Several police officers were among at least eight people killed in an attack on a bus in northeast Kenya believed to have been staged by the Somali Islamist Shebaab group, a presidential spokesperson said Saturday.

  Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had been briefed on the "brutal" murders of eight people, including police, during the jihadist attack in Wajir county, the spokesperson said in a statement. “We lost seven police officers in the bus attack," a senior police source said. “The total number of the people killed are 10. One was identified as a local doctor," the source said. — AFP

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