BELGIAN NATIONAL SHOT IN MOMBASA
(Posted 26th December 2014)
News are 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 the 23rd of December.
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 as yet. The Belgian man, a retired paratrooper named as 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.
