Nairobi: Six people were killed in a suspected attack by Shabaab militants on a residential compound in the restive northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera, police and local authorities said Thursday.
The attack targeted a gated residential building less than a kilometre from the Somalia border town of Beled Hawa.
"We have suffered yet another attack in Mandera and sadly we have lost six people," Governor Ali Roba said in a statement.
There were 33 people inside the compound when the attack took place in the early hours of the morning, it added.
The attackers used explosives to gain access to the fortified building, media reports quoted a security official as saying.
