KENYA: A person is injured in a grenade attack in an area of the Kenyan capital known as 'Little Mogadishu'

Record ID: 362444

  • Title: KENYA: A person is injured in a grenade attack in an area of the Kenyan capital known as 'Little Mogadishu'
  • Date: 16th December 2012
  • Summary: MAN INJURED IN BLAST BEING TREATED VARIOUS OF MAN'S BANDAGED ARM AND HAND
  • Embargoed: 31st December 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA7H6ZY3ET34C9F262PKP4TODOK
  • Story Text: One person was injured in an grenade attack on Sunday (December 16) in the Eastleigh district of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, a neighbourhood that has suffered a series of similar attacks in recent months, the local Red Cross society said.
    Eastleigh is commonly dubbed "Little Mogadishu" because of its large Somali population. Sites in other towns including Mombasa and Garissa have also been attacked with guns and grenades since Kenya sent its troops into neighbouring Somalia to fight Islamist al Shabaab rebels in October last year.
    The Kenya Red Cross said three grenades had been thrown from a speeding vehicle, and that one person had been rushed to hospital.

    "I was very confused, I'm not sure where it really came from. I just heard the first blast and took off, when I was running away I heard two more blasts and there was a very thick cloud of smoke and dust at the entrance to this guest house," said witness Richard Rashid.
    A Reuters reporter at the scene said the grenade had hit a butcher's shop next to a guest house, blowing a hole in the wall and shattering windows, and that the injured person had been a customer at the shop.
    The police were not available immediately for comment.
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