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At least 36 quarry workers were killed early Tuesday in northern Kenya by suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia, say Kenyan police.
The killings took happened in Mandera County near the border with Somalia and the attackers escaped, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo.
The workers were ambushed at the quarry as they slept by the gunmen, said other police sources, who insisted on anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press. The non-Muslims were singled out and killed. Some were shot dead and others were decapitated, the police officials said.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the killings but the attack bears the hallmarks of Somalia's Islamic militant rebels, al-Shabab. Al-Shabab attacked a bus in Mandera County last week in which 28 non-Muslims were separated from other passengers and shot dead.
