Bloodbath at Kenya as gunmen shoot into quarry workers sleeping tents, killing 36

They were sleeping peacefully when the gunmen opened fire on them, sending them to the great beyond. Many of them died in their sleep, unaware of what hit them.

The gunmen mowed down 36 workers at a quarry in a northeast Kenya. Nobody is sure yet if the attack was from an Islamist sect or not.

According to reports, the bandits shot at blank range at tents, where quarry workers were sleeping in the early hours of Tuesday morning near the town of Mandera, where Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab and other militia have carried out a string of raids, Kenyan media said.

Police spokesman Zipporah Mboroki confirmed the attacks but said the force would provide exact tolls of those killed later.
However, a senior police official said 36 people had been killed and there were fears others may have been abducted.
"We have lost 36 people, but there are others missing," said the police official, who asked not to be named. "We don't know whether they were taken by the attackers."