MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Muslim youths fought police in the Kenyan port of Mombasa and one person was killed on Wednesday, witnesses said, in a third day of violence over the killing of a man in a police raid on a mosque used by firebrand preachers.
Kenya is trying to break up militant recruitment networks among its Muslim community in efforts to end attacks by Somali Islamist militants and their sympathisers bent on punishing it for sending troops to Somalia to fight al Shabaab rebels.
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