Kenya Security Officials Probe al-Shabab Attack Motives

Security officials in Kenya are investigating possible motives behind Thursday's attack by Somalia's al-Shabab militants on a village on the Kenyan side of the border.  The attack is the fourth such incursion by al-Shabab on Kenyan soil in three years.

The commissioner of Kenya's Northeastern Province, James ole Serian, tells VOA that suspected members of al-Shabab in two pickup trucks crossed the border early Thursday and attacked residents of a remote village near Kenya's border town of Liboi.  

The gunmen wounded seven people, two of them seriously, before escaping back into Somalia.  Ole Serian says it is not clear why the villagers were targeted.  

"We have received some allegations that the family that was attacked was sympathizers of a faction that is opposed to al-Shabab.  But the investigation is still on-going," he said..more