NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police official says an unknown assailant has hurled a hand grenade at a van carrying British tourists in Kenya’s coastal region.
Regional police coordinator Aggrey Adoli said today the hand grenade failed to explode after hitting a window of the vehicle in a neighborhood of the area’s main city Mombasa. Police withheld the tourists’ identity.
Britain’s Foreign Office said it was urgently looking into the reports.
Al-Shabab militants from Somalia have been blamed for previous attacks on tourists in the region, including two kidnappings of European tourists in 2011.
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