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| Bombs kill one in Kenya near Somalia border |
| 2013-12-15 |
| At least one person was killed and three others seriously wounded when twin explosions rocked the Kenyan town of Wajir near the Somalia border, police said on Saturday. The blasts ripped through the town market shortly after 8:00 pm Friday night, a senior police officer told AFP. “It looks like these were improvised explosive devices,” the officer said. “We lost one person while three others were taken to hospital." No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which police said was likely the work of Al Qaeda-linked The region along Kenya’s 700-kilometre border with Somalia has seen a series of attacks, mainly on police but also against hotels and restaurants, since Kenya sent its troops to Somalia to fight the Shebab in October 2011 and authorities routinely blame the attacks on the rebels. Wajir, which lies about 100 kilometres from the Somali border, has been the scene of many of such attacks. |
| Posted by:Steve White |