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Al-Shabaab Militants Attack Chinese Construction Site in Kenya

by Eric Olander

Suspected Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack on a Chinese construction crew building the 135-kilometer Lamu-Garsen road in Kenya’s Lamu county.

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