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Kenya: Grenade attack hits tourist city of Mombasa
“I had just arrived and was having a drink as I waited for the football match to begin, then I heard an explosion, and another and another. I went down on my belly. Then I saw a car speed off and bodies lying all over,” said Muthoni.
On Saturday, the U.S. embassy in Kenya’s capital Nairobi warned of an imminent threat of an attack on Mombasa and asked all its workers to leave the coastal city.
The U.S. embassy also said it had also suspended travel for its officials to Mombasa until July 1.
Earlier on Sunday, the Kenyan government said it had written to the U.S. embassy to reverse its warning against travelling to Mombasa, terming it “a reckless advisory” and an act of “economic sabotage”.
The acting head of the Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, Francis Kimemia, said Kenya had the capacity to contain any terrorism threats.
Police said on Saturday they had recovered suspected bomb-making material in a working-class area in Nairobi.
On May 15, attackers detonated three grenades outside a night club in Mombasa, killing a woman security guard.
