ICC Note: Three veiled women set a police station on fire and stabbed a police officer in Kenya on Sunday morning. The three women were shot and killed by the police during the attack, but two of the police officers were wounded and rushed to the hospital. Even though no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, it is suspected that the three women were actually sent by Al-Shabaab fighters because they have been using women and girls as recruits in the last few months. Al-Shabaab has carried out several attacks in Kenya such as Nairobi’s Westgate Mall and Garissa University, where took several hostages, but killed those that identified as Christians.

9/12/2016, Kenya (Quartz Africa) – Three women in Kenya attacked a police station in the port city of Mombasa, stabbing one officer and setting the station on fire on Sunday (Sept. 11). All three were shot dead by police.

The three were wearing buibui robes, often worn by Muslim women in East Africa. They entered Mombasa’s central police station claiming their cellphones had been stolen. One then pulled out a knife from her robe while another threw a petrol bomb. Police also recovered an undetonated suicide vest from one of the women.

“The station caught fire. Police shot the three and killed them. Two officers are in hospital with wounds. Presumably it is a terror attack,” Patterson Maelo, the police commander for Mombasa County, told reporters. Evans Achoki, commissioner of Mombasa County said the attack was proof that “terror is mutating” in Kenya.