8:32 pm
NAIROBI – One person was wounded Saturday
when an improvised bomb exploded in the
Kenyan capital, police said, in a shop in Nairobi’s
mainly ethnic Somali district Eastleigh.
The attack is the latest of a series of bomb or
grenade blasts in Kenya.
“One person has been wounded… a person of
Somali origin left luggage containing an
improvised explosive device in a shop,” Nairobi
police chief Benson Kibue said.
“We are appealing to residents to help us get
him.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility
for the attack.
However, since Kenyan troops invaded southern
Somalia in October 2011 to help oust the
neighbouring country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab
insurgents, it has been hit by a series of attacks.
Homegrown groups including the Islamist Al-
Hijra group, a radical organisation formerly
known as the Muslim Youth Center, operate in
Kenya and have been linked to the Shebab.
Grenades have been hurled into restaurants in
crowded areas in Nairobi as well as on the
popular tourist Indian Ocean coast, and there has
been a string of attacks in the remote northeast
region bordering Somalia.
Ten people were wounded Thursday when
attackers hurled a grenade into a restaurant in a
popular coastal tourist resort town of Diani.
The Shebab claimed the brutal September assault
on Nairobi’s upmarket Westgate mall in which at
least 67 people died in a four-day siege of the
shopping centre popular with foreigners.
The Shebab on Wednesday evening set off twin
bombs at a hotel in the Somali capital, killing 11.
It claimed the attack was the start of its campaign
for the new year.


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I hope kenya does not become a terrorist troubled country.

Afam4eva: I hope kenya does not become a terrorist troubled country.

no country is immune

Another bad news from kenya.