Two staff members were killed and several students were wounded in Kenya when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying students to the Technical University of Mombasa’s campus in coastal Kwale county on Tuesday, a police official and a witness said. Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab frequently carries out attacks along the Kenya-Somali border and along the Kenyan coast. Two female staff members were killed, and a driver and two policemen were injured, a police official who did not want to be named told Reuters. As a result two ladies who are staff of TUM were killed in the van. A witness who did not want to be named told Reuters she and several other students had fled their vehicle when gunmen opened fire on them and had seen several students covered in blood.

Source: Hindustan Times October 10, 2017 08:37 UTC