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Red Cross: 22 dead in attacks on Kenyan coast

By Tom Odula
Published July 6, 2014 3:29pm ET
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Red Cross: 22 dead in attacks on Kenyan coast
Policemen stand near the wreckage of a burnt vehicle after gunmen attacked, outside Gamba police station in Gamba, Kenya, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Eighteen people were killed in overnight attacks by the gunmen in two counties on the Kenyan coast, where last month al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility for killing 65 people, the Kenya Red Cross said Sunday. The Sunday attacks took place in the towns of Hindi in Lamu county and Gamba in Tana River, the Kenya Red Cross chief Abbas Gulet said. Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants from Somalia claimed responsibility for the attacks. (AP Photo) | AP

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Twenty-two people were killed in overnight attacks by gunmen on the Kenyan coast, the Kenya Red Cross said Sunday. Al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility but Kenyan officials blamed local separatists.

The Saturday night attacks left 13 dead in the town of Hindi and nine dead and one person missing in the town of Gamba, in neighboring Lamu and Tana Delta counties, Kenya Red Cross chief Abbas Gulet said.

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