cnn international correspondent david mckenzie explains how passengers survived. reporter: aim to cause terror and division. but al shabaab gunmen here in kenya came up against an extraordinary show of defiance and unity. on monday, more than 100 passengers crammed on this bus, traveling on the chronically insecurity border with somalia. bullets ripped through the side of the bus in an ambush. two groups. i immediately see to stop us and told us to get those who are muslims to come out, go back don t go back to the bus. reporter: they told cnn 12 christians on board. the gunmen wanted to identify them and execute them. he says muslim passengers helped hide some of them on the bus,
so the dedications that we ve heard from her family and others are being repeated by the people here in mali. keir simmons live with us in mali today, thank you very, very much. the terror attack in mali was the latest in the series of attack from terror groups signal agroing threat from militant jihadism in northwest and east africa. the group who claimed responsibility for the mali attacks is led by an algerian militant who led a 2013 siege gas a against facility in algeria that included the taking of some 800 hostages and the killing of 39 people. though his group is an affiliate of al qaeda which also has loyalist groups in mali, somalia and kenya. in 2013, al shabaab that carried out the west gate mall attack in nairobi that left 67 people dead, al shabaab gunmen also killed 147 people, mostly
the reality is floods do happen. protect what matters. get flood insurance. visit floodsmart.gov/flood to learn more. fox report now and more of the headlines from the fox news desk. the terror group al shabaab is taking credit for another deadly attack in africa. officials say gunmen opened fire inside a government compound in somalia s capital city after a suicide bomber blew up his car there. police say at least eight people died before security forces killed the attacker. almost two weeks ago investigators say al shabaab gunmen killed nearly 150 people at a university in kenya. loose bricks fell off an empty building in cleveland and crushed a minivan, nine stories below. no word of anybody hurt. a spokesman for the managing company says the building is up to code, quote, as far as we