ICC Note: On July 3, Pastor John Njaramba Kiruga was murdered by al-Shabaab gunmen as he was travelling home after a trip to Garissa and Mandera in northeast Kenya. Pastor Kiruga was on mission leading peacekeeping seminars. During the ambush on the bus Kiruga was riding, gunmen shot and killed six people, including some children. Northeast Kenya teems with radical Islamist al-Shabaab terrorists who regularly target Christians and desire to purge believers from the region, claiming the territory for Islam.

07/20/2016, Mandera, Kenya (Covenant Companion) – Pastor John Njaramba Kiruga, was returning home from facilitating a peacemaking training in Garissa and Mandera that was sponsored with a grant from Covenant World Relief (CWR) when he was killed by gunmen connected with a terrorist group.

The training had focused on pursuing peace between Christian and Muslims, said CWR director Dave Husby.

The seminars were in especially dangerous locations. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked with Al-Qaeda, had killed 148 people last April in Garissa, and Mandera had been the site of frequent attacks. Both locations are near the border.

According to news reports, the gunmen ambushed two buses near the Somalia border, about an hour from Mandera. The first one was able to speed through, but the second one was stopped when the driver was killed. A total of six people were killed, including children.

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