A man has been arrested after a grenade attack killed a woman and wounded several people outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, police said yesterday.
The attack on Tuesday at the Bella Vista sports bar in the heart of Mombasa, a popular holiday destination for Kenyans and foreigners, was the latest in a string of attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants.
Nairobi has blamed the Somali al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants for the violence, which is threatening tourism, a foreign exchange earner for east Africas biggest economy.
“We have arrested one suspect in connection with the attack in Mombasa and police have launched a hunt for other suspects,” police said. – (Reuters)