Workers flee Kenya’s border town over terror attacks

Dozens of public servants in the northern Kenyan town of Mandera are fleeing the restive region due to increased insecurity following the massacre of over 60 people in the past three weeks.
Mandera leaders told journalists on Sunday that over 20 health facilities have been closed after health personnel left the county for fear of attacks, adding that they issued an appeal to the national government to help them retain public servants fleeing the area.
“As we speak, over 150 teachers have already sent their requests to Teachers Service Commissioner, appealing to leave the county with no intention of coming back,” Mandera Governor Ali Roba told journalists after holding a security meeting.
He said the recent insecurity incidences where Al-Shabaab ambushed a Nairobi bound bus and killed 28 non Muslim passengers and this week’s massacre of 36 quarry workers have negatively affected the county