July 6, 2014: People watch the site where gunmen attacked outside the Gamba police station in Gamba, Kenya. (AP Photo)
NAIROBI, Kenya – Twenty-two people were killed on saturday night attacks by gunmen in two counties on the Kenyan coast, where aother attacl happened and 65 people were killed, the Kenya Red Cross said Sunday.
The Saturday night attacks took place in the towns of Hindi in Lamu county and Gamba in Tana River, Kenya Red Cross chief Abbas Gulet said.
According to the Lamu county commissioner Njenga Miiri, a group of about 15 gunmen raided the Malamandi village of Hindi and started shooting at residents, the attackers also attacked Gamba police station, Kenya's police chief David Kimaiyo said.
Hindi is about 25 miles north of Mpeketoni where dozens were killed in an attack last month, while Gamba is about 43 miles northwest of Mpeketoni.
Police said 13 people were killed in Hindi, while in Gamba nine others were killed and one person was missing.
The nine victims in Gamba included five inmates said to be non-Muslim, who were killed when the gunmen attacked the police station, said a senior police officer who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media. Three other inmates escaped with the gunmen.
The officer said the gunmen got to the police station by car-jacking a truck and killing its three occupants. Five police officers were wounded in the attack and one officer was killed in the attack.
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