KENYA: Suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya's capital kills at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city

Record ID: 362807

  • Title: KENYA: Suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya's capital kills at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city
  • Date: 14th December 2013
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (DECEMBER 14, 2013) (REUTERS) VIEW OF STREET WHERE A MINIBUS WAS ATTACKED VARIOUS OF BLOWN-UP MINIBUS AMBULANCE REVERSING ARMED POLICE OFFICER STANDING ON THE ROAD SIDE REMAINS OF MINIBUS IN BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF BLOWN-UP MINIBUS AND INVESTIGATORS TAKING EVIDENCE FROM IT VARIOUS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS WALKING PAST THE SCENE EMERGENCY SERVICES VEHICLE DRIVING AWA
  • Embargoed: 29th December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVAEN137Q2WY6K5BHBGK7Y7ZNHJC
  • Story Text: A suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya's capital on Saturday (December 14) killed at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city, police said in a statement.
    The attack that took place in Pangani, a neighbourhood near Eastleigh which is home to many Somalis, shattered a minibus spilling metal, glass and other debris on the street. A car nearby was also damaged.
    Kenya Red Cross and other ambulances attended the scene. St John Ambulance reported on its Twitter account that 15 people were taken to one hospital and three died from their injuries.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
    Saturday's incident follows another grenade attack on Thursday (December 12) on a tour van in the port city of Mombasa. In that attack, police said suspect hurled a device at a passing tour van but it failed to explode.
    The device was later detonated by police.
    Last year a series of such attacks in and around the Eastleigh area of Nairobi were blamed on Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group.
    The group staged an assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in September this year that killed 67 people.
    Al Shabaab said its gunmen carried out the mall attack to force Kenya to withdraw troops from Somalia where they are part of an African peacekeeping mission battling with the Islamists.
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