Muslims Burn Church, Kill 4 in Protests Weeks After Kenya Mall Terror Attack

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A Salvation Army church has been burned and four people were killed in Kenya's second largest city as Muslim youth took to the streets to protest the shooting death of a popular imam on Friday.

Muslims clashed with police in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, who fire back with gunshots and teargas to quell the three hour protest.

Sheikh Ibrahim Omar's death earlier this week, in combination with the Nairobi mall massacre two weeks ago that killed 67 people, have rekindled religious tensions between Muslims and Christians in the country. Keep reading

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