At least fourteen people have been killed and several others wounded in a gun attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya.<br /><br /> Among the dead were quarry workers who were killed in their sleep according to the Kenya Red Cross.<br /><br /> Al-Shabaab Attack Kenyan Town at Midnight: http://t.co/ylS9Q6Mk6M #EastAfrica #Kenya pic.twitter.com/xyiFqeI6zW— allAfrica.com (@allafrica) July 7, 2015<br /><br /> Somali-based Islamist group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the assault in Mandera town. In a statement the group’s spokesperson said “this is part of our ongoing operations against Kenya.”<br /><br /> The extremist militant group aims to topple Somalia’s government and impose its own version of Islamic law. <br /><br /> They have carried out frequent attacks in neighbouring Kenya to force Nairobi to pull its troops out of Somalia.<br /><br /> In the most bloody attack, they killed 148 people at a university in Kenya’s Garissa county in April.
