Suspected separatists attack barracks, police camp on Kenya's coast


  • World
  • Monday, 03 Nov 2014

MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan soldiers shot dead six suspected members of a separatist group after they hacked an officer to death in an attack on barracks in the port city of Mombasa, police and military officials said on Sunday.

Also late on Saturday, officers fought off armed men at a police station in the tourist resort of Malindi, about 120 km (75 miles) north east of Mombasa.

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