Gunmen kill six in attack on Kenyan church

Kenyan police men walk past members of the public standing behind the cordoned off area outside the church where gunmen attacked worshippers attending a church service at the Coast coastal town of Mombasa, March 23, 2014. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Gunmen shouting in a foreign language killed six worshippers in a church near the coastal city of Mombasa on Sunday, an attack of the kind that Islamist militants have been carrying out in retaliation for Kenya's intervention in neighbouring Somalia.

Witnesses said the attackers burst in through the church's back door before shouting out and opening fire on the congregation.