KENYA: Nine victims of a blast in Nairobi receive treatment at a local hospital

Record ID: 362438

  • Title: KENYA: Nine victims of a blast in Nairobi receive treatment at a local hospital
  • Date: 5th December 2012
  • Summary: WOUNDED CIVILIAN WITH ARM WOUND IN HOSPITAL VARIOUS NURSES ATTENDING TO WOUNDED / WRAPPING WOUNDED ARM WITH GAUZE MAN WITH FACIAL WOUND ON HOSPITAL BED VARIOUS OF WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL NURSES ATTENDING TO INJURED MAN ON WHEELCHAIR WOUNDED CIVILIAN IN HOSPITAL BED
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAM22NOWLAJMZ4NNYOGMUU6O39
  • Story Text: Nine people were wounded on Wednesday (December 5) after a suspected remote-controlled bomb tore through a predominantly Somali neighbourhood in the Kenyan capital Nairobi during the evening rush hour.
    At least three of those wounded were in critical condition according to the Kenyan Red Cross.
    The explosion could be heard several kilometres away in Nairobi's central business district. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
    Nurses at a local hospital were busy treating those wounded by the blast.
    One of the victims had their leg amputated as result of severe wounding sustained at the scene.
    Nurses were also stitching the wounds of those in critical condition.
    The attack appeared to target Kenyan nationals in Eastleigh, a rundown part of the city where there is widespread resentment towards the Somali immigrants who run many of the local businesses.
    Last month, a grenade attack on a bus in Eastleigh that killed nine people triggered a day of street battles between Kenyan nationals and Somali Kenyans and their ethnic kin.
    Kenyan authorities have blamed Somali militants and their sympathisers for a wave of grenade and gun attacks in Kenya after Nairobi sent soldiers into neighbouring Somalia last year to drive out Islamist fighters with links to al Qaeda.
    Mounting insecurity is a growing concern as the region's biggest economy prepares for a presidential election in march - the first poll since a contested 2007 vote which unleashed nationwide ethnic violence.
    ENDS
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