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At least two security officers have been killed after two blasts struck a busy restaurant in downtown Djibouti, police said. The blasts at La Chaumiere restaurant, popular with Western tourists, wounded 11 other people according to Reuters news agency. "It's a criminal act. We have two people dead and 11 wounded. It was grenades," Colonel Omar Hassan, head of police in Djibouti city, told Reuters. The French foreign ministry confirmed that several of its nationals were slightly wounded in the attack, and the Netherlands' De Telegraaf reported that six Dutch soldiers who had been taking part in an anti-piracy mission were also lightly wounded.
