Kenyan police have been given orders to guard 'colleges, churches, hotels, beaches and supermarkets' after receiving intelligence that several terrorist attacks were to be carried out around the city of Mombasa.
Kenyan security forces help people to escape after a bomb blast at DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 15, 2019Kenyan police are on high alert after recovering intelligence suggesting that several operatives had been sent into the country by al-Shabaab, a Somali jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Police believe seven operatives have been sent into Kenya to carry out attacks on several key counties. Both Kwale and Kilifi counties are located along the country's coast on the Indian Ocean and both border Mombasa, Kenya's second-largest city by population, to the southwest and north. Police told media that they believe the al-Shabaab militants intend to carry out attacks on several important institutions in the two counties and Mombasa, including Moi International Airport, Kenya Ports Authority and the Standard Gauge Railway terminus.
"It is likely that the operatives may use the opportunity to target social places including hotels and beaches along the Kenyan Coast," a September 28 letter obtained by Kenyan newspaper
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