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| Kenya Detains Two Somalis Suspected in Mombasa Attack |
| 2014-05-08 |
| A Kenyan court ordered two Somali men held in custody for 10 days based on police suspicions that they were involved in twin explosions in the port city of Mombasa that killed four people and injured scores injured in last weekend. Investigators asked the court to detain the two Somalis to complete investigations, pending any formal charges. Another 102 people arrested in police operations that followed the weekend attacks have since been freed. Attackers threw a bomb at passengers at a bus station while a separate blast damaged a luxury hotel in the coastal city. Both incidents were on Saturday, and were followed a day later by two bus bombings in the capital Nairobi that killed three people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but in the past Kenya has blamed similar attacks on al Qaeda-linked Somali group al Shabaab, which killed at least 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in September. Deputy President William Ruto on Monday defended his government against accusations it had not done enough to secure the nation after the Westgate attack saying Kenyan defense forces will stay in Somalia until they clear Al-Shabaab militant group. |
| Posted by:Steve White |