WAJIR, Kenya, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen on Tuesday opened fire in an examination center in Wajir County in northeast Kenya, disrupting ongoing examinations which are taking place across the East African nation.
Regional government official Mohamud Saleh said a security operation has been launched to track down the suspects whom the locals and police say could not establish their motive. No injury was reported.
Saleh said the armed men forced their way into Abaqkorey High School and opened fire at the candidates just a few minutes after they had started their History paper, forcing the examiners to stop examinations for some minutes as security personnel there sought to establish the source of the gunshots.
"There were gunshots in the area that forced disruption of the sitting of History paper but security officials there did not establish the source and those behind the same. They fired back when the first shots rang," said Saleh.
He added that there were six police officers manning the center at the time of the incident and some of them fired back when the shots were heard from outside.
The police said the students scampered for safety after they heard gunshots before the assailants fled into a nearby bush. Wajir borders Somalia where Al-Shabaab have been mounting cross-border attacks.
Local police commander Caleb Wesa confirmed that no student was injured and that they had launched a manhunt for the two men. "We are yet to establish the motive behind the attack but we are investigating the matter," he said.
The center is in a small town and is in Habaswein district and near the border of Garissa and Wajir counties. The area is embroiled in clan fighting over boundary issues.
Saleh could not tell if those behind the shooting were Al-Shabaab gunmen or local militia involved in fighting over clan and boundary issues.
The Wajir region has been crippled by persistent insecurity incidents propelled by Al-Shabaab terrorists. The incident comes after the police killed four Al-Shabaab militants in neighboring Mandera County on Sunday.
Al-Shabab has staged numerous cross-border raids since Kenya decided in October 2011 to send troops into Somalia to confront them. The group says it is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia.
A man has been detained by local police for allegedly spreading an online rumor which claimed a 50-year-old man severely bashed an 8-year-old boy over a bus seat.
Police found the 33-year-old man cheap nike air force 270 mens , surnamed Jiang, posted the rumor in a WeChat group that had more than 400 members on January 8. The post was later shared on local lifestyle website liba and went viral on Tuesday night.
The post said a 50-year-old man and an 8-year-old boy were having an argument over a seat on bus route 104. It claimed the boy was severely injured after being beaten by the man, and that the boy's mother poked the man in the eye with something sharp.
After a thorough investigation, police found no such incident occurred.
Jiang confessed to rumor mongering and said he did it to gain popularity.
Police are still investigating.
BEIJING cheap nike air force 270 , Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's top environment authorityhas issued an updated management guideline to regulate itspollutant emission permit system, making sure every emission intothe air, water and soil is supervised, Thursday's China Dailyreported.
Based on the provisional document in December 2016 to promotethe permit system cheap nike air force 2 high , the guideline was made public by the Ministry ofEnvironmental Protection, the newspaper said.
The updated guideline highlights the responsibilities ofcompanies including the need to conduct regular monitoring andrelease information. Violators face tough punishments.
If a company is caught discharging pollutants without a permit,it could be required to suspend production or shut down, and facesa fine of up to 1 million yuan (155 cheap nike air force 2 low ,000 U.S. dollars), according tothe guideline.
Companies guilty of other violations including excessiveemissions and falsifying monitoring data will also face similarpenalties of closure and heavy fines.
The permit system has worked in regulating emissions in the pastyear, and will be more effective when it is expanded to cover allcompanies with the help of the updated guideline, the ministrysaid.
In China cheap nike air force 2 , 27 provinces have adopted the pollutant emissionpermit system since the 1980s, and granted permits to more than240,000 companies before the reform started in 2016.
But problems including a lack of unified standards have loweredthe performance, thus making the update necessary cheap nike sf af1 high black , Wang Jian,deputy head of the ministry's department in charge of air pollutioncontrol, was quoted by the newspaper as saying. Enditem
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese Internet pioneer hasbeen inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for his contributionsto Internet technology cheap nike sf af1 high , deployment and education in China and AsiaPacific.
Dr. Jianping Wu, an academician of the Chinese Academy ofEngineering, was one of 14 people selected this year for inductionto the Hall of Fame, according to a statement released by theInternet Society (ISOC) on Tuesday.
Wu cheap nike air force 1 off wite volt , also chairman of the Department of Computer Science atChina's Tsinghua University, has since 1994 led the design,development and evolution of CERNET, the first Internet backbone inChina cheap nike air force 1 off white black , helping it become the largest national academic network, thestatement said.
Hailing from 10 countries, the 14 inductees have pushed theboundaries of technological and social innovation, the ISOCsaid.
The inductees were selected by an Advisory Board of pastinductees who guide the long-term planning and direction of theprogram.