News is only now slowly emerging in the Kenyan and international media, which appear to have kept the story under wraps for the Christmas holiday, that a Belgian national got shot in an apparent mugging or robbery attempt.
The victim, according to some of the reports now available on the web, lived in Mombasa for the past two years. The incident took place on December 23.
Few details are known at present other than that the man apparently was in town with a local friend when they were held up at gunpoint. There are conflicting reports that the two were either walking or in a taxi, and no information could be obtained from official sources as to the precise circumstances, nor if any arrests have been made yet. The Belgian man, a retired paratrooper named Dimitri Van Hamme (spelling not confirmed) was fatally shot in the ensuing struggle while his companion is in a local hospital with serious injuries following her emergency treatment.
The source passing the information emphasized that this was a crime of opportunity but in no way terror related.
The Christmas season in Kenya, and elsewhere in the region, passed without any major security incidents apart from this apparent mugging gone wrong.
WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:
- News is only now slowly emerging in the Kenyan and international media, which appear to have kept the story under wraps for the Christmas holiday, that a Belgian national got shot in an apparent mugging or robbery attempt.
- There are conflicting reports that the two were either walking or in a taxi, and no information could be obtained from official sources as to the precise circumstances, nor if any arrests have been made yet.
- The Belgian man, a retired paratrooper named Dimitri Van Hamme (spelling not confirmed) was fatally shot in the ensuing struggle while his companion is in a local hospital with serious injuries following her emergency treatment.
