Suicide car bombers have struck an Israeli-owned hotel in the Kenyan city of Mombasa, killing at least eight. At almost the same time two missiles were fired at an Israeli aeroplane which had just taken off from the city's airport, lightly damaging the plane but causing no injuries.
Six of the dead in the bombing were Kenyans and two Israeli, according to police. Kenya's ambassador to Israeli immediately blamed al-Qaeda for the attacks, which if true would make it the group's first direct targeting of Israelis. a previously unknown gorup, the Army of Palestine, claimed responsibility. Kenya's US embassy was the victim of suicide car bombing in 1998 which killed 219.
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