Gunmen attacked workers from a quarry in Mandera County in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, as they slept in their tents on Tuesday, Dec. 2, an attack claimed by the Somali militant group al-Shabab.
al Shabaab Militants Strike in Kenya
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, with Deputy President William Ruto, addresses a news conference at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 2, 2014.
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Kenyan military personnel and Red Cross volunteers carry bodies of people killed at a quarry in a village in Korome, outside the border town of Mandera, Kenya, Dec. 2, 2014.
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People stand near bodies lined up on the ground at a quarry site where attackers killed at least 36 workers in a village in Korome, outside the border town of Mandera, Dec. 2, 2014.
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Kenyan military personnel and Red Cross volunteers carry bodies of people killed at a quarry in a village in Korome, outside the border town of Mandera, Dec. 2, 2014.