Armed assailants attacked Panda Nguo Village on the Lamu County in Kenya’s Coast on Thursday, stealing guns from Police Conscript and burning down schools.
The attack is the latest series of raids since mid-June that have killed about 100 people in the Coast.
Although it was not clear who carried out the assault, there were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack on Thursday night in the village of Panda Nguo, where most of the attacks took place in Kenya.
According to a Senior Religion officials “unknown criminals burnt down the administration block, classrooms and a store,” he said.
The attack on Panda Nguo took place at about 1:00am local time, said Karisa Charo, a tribal chief in the area.
“Apart from burning down houses and stealing guns, they took away all the drugs and other medical supplies from dispensary,” Charo added.
The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks, including deadly raids on the Mpeketoni area, which lies in Lamu County, in which about 65 people were killed in back-to-back assaults over 24 hours.
The government has dismissed that claim, blaming local political networks – widely seen as directed at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s main opponent Raila Odinga and his opposition allies.
Security forces have been deployed to the region and are combing forests where the attackers are thought to be hiding. There have been dozens of arrests linked to the assaults.
Many on the coast accuse the government of neglecting their region, while Hundreds of families have fled the area where the attacks have occurred, most of them in Lamu County which stretches to the Somali border.
Al Shabaab said it had launched attacks on Kenya to drive Kenyan and other African Union forces out of Somalia.
This raises fears of a full-blown insurgency unless the government tackles problems of ethnic rivalries, land rows and Islamist militancy, on the coast.
