Police said five people were killed on Sunday when armed men attacked two villages in Lamu district in southeastern Kenya. The attackers also burned homes and destroyed property.
Police described the incident as a "terrorist attack", a term they usually use to refer to incursions by the Somali group al-Shabaab.
Lamu is located near Kenya's border with Somalia, and al-Shabaab militants frequently launch attacks in the area as part of efforts to pressure Kenya to withdraw its forces from Somalia, where it is part of the international peacekeeping force defending the Somali federal government.
The police said that a group of attackers attacked the villages of Salama and Al-Juhoudi in the early hours of Sunday morning, slaughtering a 60-year-old man, burning his house with all his belongings, and killing three others in the same way, while the fifth was shot dead.
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