At least 26 people were killed when some 50 flying black flag waving insurgents swept into a Kenyan coastal town firing indiscriminately a local government official said earlier today.
“So far we have collected over 26 bodies and taken them to the mortuary, but we are still looking for more,” Benson Maisori, deputy commissioner for the district told the press.
Gun battles began yesterday evening and continued into the early hours today morning, but by dawn, the town of Mpeketoni was reported calm.
The insurgents were reported to have been from Somalia´s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.
