Kenyan authorities say they've arrested several people in connection with the massacres that have hit coastal regions in recent days, including the suspected ringleaders and the owner and driver of one of the vehicles used in an attack, the BBC reports. Police also arrested someone suspected of operating social media accounts "purportedly used by al-Shabab to claim responsibility," the police chief said on Twitter.
Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for both attacks, but President Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed those claims, instead accusing "local political networks" of being behind the killings. "The attack in Lamu was well-planned, orchestrated and politically motivated ethnic violence," Kenyatta said yesterday. "This, therefore, was not an al-Shabab terrorist attack." Many are skeptical, however, saying Kenyatta may be trying to deflect criticism that he's failed to protect citizens from the terrorist group. "There are huge inconsistencies in that narrative," one Kenyan columnist tells the New York Times. (More al-Shabab stories.)
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