A mother of two and her cousin were publicly executed by beheading on March 4 after al-Shabaab militants found out they were Christians.
Residents were called to witness the executions of Sadia and Osman. Sadia’s two daughters, aged 8 and 15, were among those subjected to the gruesome spectacle; the youngest cried out for someone to save her mother. The girls have been left orphans as their father died after falling ill in 2011. Fearing for their safety, a family friend has helped them to relocate to a different area.
One resident said that an al-Shabaab militant announced before the killings: ‘We know these two people are Christians who recently came back from Kenya. We want to wipe out any underground Christian living inside of a mujahidin area’.
