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Three teachers killed in Kenya

Date: Feb 16, 2018

A Kenyan official says suspected al-Shabaab extremists have killed three teachers in an overnight attack in the northeastern county of Wajir.

North Eastern regional co-ordinator Mohamud Saleh says an unknown number of gunmen attacked Qarsa Primary School and targeted non-Muslim teachers. Saleh says a rescue team responding to the attack ran over an improvised device but no one was injured.

Education along Kenya's border with Somalia has been greatly hindered after non-Muslim teachers refused to work in the region following the extremist group's targeting of non-Muslims starting in 2014 that left dozens dead.

Al-Shabaab has vowed retribution after Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the extremists in the Horn of Africa nation.

--AP--

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