KENYA: Seventeen people die as two churches are struck by simultaneous grenade blasts

Record ID: 353674

  • Title: KENYA: Seventeen people die as two churches are struck by simultaneous grenade blasts
  • Date: 2nd July 2012
  • Summary: GARISSA, KENYA (JULY 1, 2012) (REUTERS) STILL OF KENYAN SECURITY FORCES SECURING AFRICAN INLAND CHURCH AFTER EXPLOSION STILL OF KENYAN SECURITY OFFICER COLLECTING EXPLOSIVE SAMPLES VARIOUS OF STILLS OF BODY OF WORSHIPPER KILLED IN ATTACK BEING LOADED INTO PICK-UP TRUCK STILL OF WORSHIPPER INJURED IN THE ATTACK
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA2HWILTOY3A1D55YBTVV0MLE7Q
  • Story Text: Masked attackers killed at least 17 people on Sunday (July 1) in gun and grenade attacks on churches in Garissa, a Kenyan town used as a base for operations against al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Somalia.
    At least 45 people were wounded in the simultaneous attacks on Garissa, in the north of the East African country which has suffered a series of blasts since sending troops into Somalia last October to crush Somalia's al Shabaab militants.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
    Police said they suspected the attacks could have been the work of al Shabaab sympathisers or bandits, but it was too early to say.
    Inside Somalia, al Shabaab declined comment.
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