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![General Service Unit and police officers keep guard outside the Masjid Swafaa Mosque in Kisauni as other officers were raiding the Mosque in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, November 19, 2014. During the raid, police officers managed to nett nine hand made petrol bombs, one hand grenade among other crude weapons. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].](https://cdn.standardmedia.co.ke/images/thursday/pole.jpg) |
| General Service Unit and police officers keep guard outside the Masjid Swafaa Mosque in Kisauni as other officers were raiding the Mosque in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. During the raid, police officers managed to nett nine hand made petrol bombs, one hand grenade among other crude weapons. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]. |
Mombasa, Kenya: Authorities have shut down two more mosques in Mombasa in a widening crackdown on institutions suspected to be breeding grounds for terrorists.
The crackdown, which began on Monday morning, continued yesterday with police storming Swafaa Mosque in Kisauni at about 3am. Police said a machete-wielding man was arrested in the mosque, while others who were with him fled through a back door.
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