Al Shabaab kills 36 Kenya quarry attack By Brian Walker and Merieme Arif, CNN

l AShabaab militants raided a quarry in Kenya, separating non-Muslim workers from their Muslim counterparts and executing them. At least 36 bodies were found Tuesday dumped in the quarry in the village of Kormey, near the Somalian border, the Kenyan Red Cross said. Al Shabaab said the attack was retaliation for mosque raids that Kenyan security forces carried out last month to weed out extremists. Kormey is about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the border city of Mandera, in an area where the Somalia-based Al Shabaab militants are known to operate. Last month, the Islamist militants ambushed a bus in Kenya and sprayed bullets on those who failed to recite Quran verses, killing at least 28 people, authorities said. The bus, which had 60 people aboard, was heading from Mandera to the capital of Nairobi. The group says the latest attacks are a response to the police raid on multiple mosques in the port city of Mombasa after explosives were found in one. "Our Mujhahideen forces are always ready to launch frequent deadly cross-border attacks against Kenya as a revenge," the group said in a statement. Deadly history Al-Shabaab, which has ties to al Qaeda, has launched a series of attacks in Kenya since its forces went into neighboring Somalia in 2011 to battle the extremists.