NAIROBI // An assailant has hurled a hand grenade at a van carrying British tourists in Kenya’s coastal region, police say.
Regional police coordinator Aggrey Adoli said on Thursday the hand grenade failed to explode after hitting a window of the vehicle in a neighbourhood 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.
The attack came on the same day Kenya celebrated half a century of independence from Britain.
* Associated Press
