A group of Islamic extremists attacked two major Christian villages leaving at least 30 people dead in one attack and two men burned alive in the second.

The Morning Star News of Kenya reported that the Islamists attacked Covenant Church near Hindi after the close of a Bible study.  Two men hid inside the building while the rest of the Christians fled the attack and were burned alive when the Islamists torched the building.

Less than 48 hours earlier, the same group of Islamists attacked near Gamba and Hindi, killing all they found after telling Muslims and non-Christians to leave the area or convert to Islam.  One of the dead with a 12-year-old boy from a Christian primary school and other man who was executed point blank, put in a pool of his blood and then had a Bible jammed into his back.

One witness said the attackers bound their victims before killing them.

“I was removed with my daughter from the house while the attackers tied my husband to the bedside before setting the house on fire,” a survivor told Morning Star News.  “The attackers…targeted non-Muslims, whom they tied with ropes before slitting their throats.”

The government confirmed most of the dead had their hands bound behind their backs and had their throats slit.

One of the students killed had a small blackboard placed next to the body that read “Kick Christians out [of] coast.”