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| Bomb Blast Wounds One in Kenyan Capital |
| 2014-01-05 |
[An Nahar] One person was maimed Saturday when an improvised bomb went kaboom!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 maimed... a person of Somali origin left luggage containing an improvised bomb 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, women are made to be loved, not understood... since Kenyan troops invaded southern Somalia in October 2011 to help oust the neighboring country's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab turbans, it has been hit by a series of attacks. Homegrown groups including the Islamist Al-Hijra group, a radical organization formerly known as the Mohammedan Youth Center, operate in Kenya and have been linked to the Shabaab. 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 maimed Thursday when attackers hurled a grenade into a restaurant in a popular coastal tourist resort town of Diani. |
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