Kenyan police have arrested two men suspected of links to a Somali Islamist militant group after they were tracked and found to have two large bombs that may have been aimed for use in the area of the port city of Mombasa.
The Somali al Shabaab Islamist group has claimed several attacks on Kenya in the past. After a September raid by gunmen on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at least 67 people, the group said it planned more attacks. The coast, which is popular with tourists, has been a target.
Police recovered two large improvised explosive devices (IEDs), or hand-made bombs, from the men. We suspect they were planning to detonate them somewhere around Mombasa. Police had trailed the suspects after intercepting telephone communications they were making with suspected accomplices in Somalia.
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