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| Africa Horn |
| 11 wounded in Garissa kaboom |
| 2014-05-22 |
| Garissa, Somalia -- A suspected grenade blast near a mosque wounded 11 people in Garissa town on Tuesday, police and disaster officials said. The attack happened a day after suspected Somalia al Shabaab militants killed at least 12 people in Mandera County in an ambush. Kenyan warplanes have been targeting al Shabaab positions in Somalia over the past days, as the country pursues the militants who have carried out a series of gun, bomb and grenade attacks on its territory. It sent in troops in 2011. Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said one of the 11 wounded was in a serious condition but the rest were out of danger. A second grenade failed to detonate, he said. The National Disaster Operations Centre said on its Twitter feed the blast occurred near a mosque and that three suspects had been arrested. Neither explicitly said al Shabaab was to blame, but suspicion is likely to fall on the al Qaeda linked Islamist group. |
| Posted by:Steve White |