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Kenyan police kill three women who staged attack on police station

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Kenyan police have killed three women who attacked a police station in the coastal city of Mombasa, officials say.

The women, wearing hijabs, entered the station saying they wanted to report a stolen cell phone, police say.

Once in the station, one of the women pulled a knife and another threw a petrol bomb that started a fire in the station.

Two officers were injured in the attack.

It is not yet clear who was behind the attack, but Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has staged numerous attacks in the East African country.

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