(29 Aug 2012) A grenade attack wounded four policemen in the latest outbreak of violence in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, ending what had seemed to be a lull in violence stemming from the killing on Monday of a radical Islamist preacher, a police officer said late on Wednesday.
A hand grenade was hurled into a police van carrying several security officials who were patrolling the precincts of Mombasa Pentecostal Church, critically wounding three of them, police said.
As the police vehicle stopped to give way to other motor vehicles, a boy "threw something to the officers who were in the vehicle, and after a short while, that object exploded injuring four of the officers," said Ambrose Munyasia, an officer from a local Criminal Investigation Department.
The grenade attack shattered the relative calm that had started to spread over the city on the third day after the killing of Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who had been sanctioned by the US and UN for his alleged support for al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked militant group in Somalia.
He was shot to death by unidentified gunmen on Monday morning as he drove in his car with his family. His wife was wounded in a leg.
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