DHAKA: Gunmen have killed some 36 quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera.

Aid workers and officials say, reports the BBC.

The attackers separated Muslims from non-Muslims and shot the Christians dead, residents said.

Earlier, one person was killed in a bar popular with non-Muslims in a neighboring district.

Islamist militants from the Somalia-based al-Shabab group killed 28 people in an attack on a bus targeting non-Muslims in the same area last week.

The attack on the quarry workers took place early on Tuesday. Witnesses said the victims were caught after midnight, while sleeping in their tents at the quarry.

A local police chief said the assailants targeted non-Muslim workers at a quarry in Kormey, 15km from Mandera town.

Kenya’s Red Cross said on its Twitter feed that security personnel and one of its own teams were on the ground at the site of the attack.

BDST: 1220 HRS, DEC 02, 2014