MOMBASA, Kenya: A foreign female tourist was shot dead in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa yesterday, the second such killing there this month, police said.
“We are pursuing the killers who have shot the tourist,” Mombasa police chief Robert Kitur said. No details of her nationality were given.
The shooting took place close to where a female Russian tourist was killed on July 6, also by unknown gunmen. Police blamed that attack on “normal thuggery”.
“We are yet to establish if there is anything stolen from her,” Kitur added.
No one has claimed responsibility for the shooting.
Mombasa has been the scene of worsening unrest in recent months with a string of shootings and bombings blamed on Somalia’s Shebab rebels or local supporters.Last month the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab warned foreign tourists to stay out of Kenya.
AFP
