Kenya ‘grenade’ attack injures 10

Kenyan police take position outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. (File photo)

A grenade explosion in a restaurant in a coastal tourist resort town in Kenya has left ten people injured, police say.

The attack took place early Thursday in the Indian Ocean town of Diani, south of the main city of Mombasa.
The restaurant was targeted when it was still crowded with people who had been celebrating the New Year.
“We are trying to establish the kind of explosive used,” said local police chief Jack Ekakuro.
However, a police officer at the scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the explosion “had all the characteristics” of a grenade.
Meanwhile, a police source said that the attackers were on a motorcycle and escaped the scene after hurling the grenade into the restaurant.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
In December 2013, attackers hurled a grenade at British tourists as they drove from Diani to Mombasa, but it did not explode.
In September, Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was attacked and around 70 people died in a four-day siege of the shopping center.
Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters claimed responsibility for the attack and warned the Kenyan government to withdraw its troops from their country.
Al-Shabab said the raid was in retaliation for the Kenyan military’s invasion of southern Somalia in October 2011.
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SOURCE : PRESS TV