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Heavily-armed militants attack buses in Lamu, repulsed by police

Heavily-armed militants on Tuesday have attacked a convoy of passenger buses and their army escorts in the Lamu region of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast near the border with Somalia, officials and witnesses said.

The attack took place near the town of Mpeketoni, which has been the scene of previous raids and massacres carried out by the Somali-led and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab Islamist group.

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