Three women killed while staging an attack

 

three women were killed while staging a knife and firebomb attack on the main police station in the Kenyan city of Mombasa on Sunday in what officers said was "an apparent terror attack."

Mombasa County police chief Peterson Maelo said the three women had entered the city's busiest police station in mid-morning saying they wanted to report a stolen phone.

"In the process one hurled a petrol bomb at the report office as the others confronted two officers and stabbed them," Maelo told journalists at the scene.

according to the news, "All the three attackers have been killed and the two police officers have been rushed to hospital," he said, terming it "an apparent terror attack."

The fire was put out and the station sealed off by heavily armed police officers as the probe gets under way.

A senior police officer in Mombasa who asked not to be identified said earlier that the three were in Muslim dress.

"This is terrorism, they were definitely on a mission," he said.

A witness named Saumu said "the women were shouting saying God Is Great, Allahu Akbar ... then one of them threw something at the cops and that's when I ran away."t