1 Dead, 100 Held as Police Storm Kenya Mosque
At least one man was killed and a police officer seriously wounded Sunday when police raided a mosque in Kenya and arrested more than 100 people, a local police chief said.
Police said they stormed the Masjid Musa mosque in the coastal city of Mombasa because young men were being radicalized there.
Kenyan police have in the past linked the mosque to recruitment for the Somali al-Qaida-linked Islamist group Shebab.
"We received information that there was a jihad convention in the mosque and that's when we moved in," said local police chief Robert Kitur.
"They turned violent and attacked our officers but we have managed to arrest over 100 who will be charged tomorrow," he said, without giving further details.
Men who carried away the body of the dead youth said he had been shot by police. Kitur confirmed one person had died, but declined to say in what circumstances.
Last September Shebab stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, causing at least 67 deaths in a four-day siege.
Shebab sympathizers and sleeper cells have been blamed for a series of deadly but much smaller attacks over the past two years in Kenya.
Source: Agence France Presse
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