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Gunmen kill seven at mosque in Kenya border town

By AFP
Kenya Kenyan security forces search on October 15, 2011 near Liboi, Kenya's border town with Somalia.  By Tony Karumba AFPFile
FEB 21, 2013 LISTEN
Kenyan security forces search on October 15, 2011 near Liboi, Kenya's border town with Somalia. By Tony Karumba (AFP/File)

NAIROBI (AFP) - Gunmen stormed a mosque in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia on Thursday, killing seven people including women, police and a local official said.

The attack occurred in Malleley near the town of Liboi when "heavily armed men stormed a mosque and shot at people indiscriminately," a police officer in the town of Garissa said. A local administrative official said five men and two women were killed.

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