In Kenya three people, including a local MP, died and at least eight others were injured when a bomb went off outside a mosque in the capital Nairobi.
The blast happened in a neighborhood populated by migrants from neighboring Somalia.
No
one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far, but the
authorities point a finger at the Al-Shabaab radicals, angered by
Kenya’s participation in a UN-sponsored peacekeeping operation in
Somalia.
2 killed in blast in Kenyan capital
At least two people were killed and eight injured in an explosion near a mosque in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
An
explosive device went off in an area populated mainly by immigrants
from Somalia. Wednesday's blast in the same area left several people
injured.
In recent months, shootouts and explosions are heard in Kenya increasingly more often.
Authorities blame the violence on Somali militants associated with Al-Qaeda.
Earlier, the militants announced they would take revenge on Kenya for helping the Somali government crush the Islamists.
Large blast in Kenyan capital, several people wounded
Several
people were wounded in a large explosion outside a mosque in the Kenyan
capital Friday, the latest in a string of blasts in Nairobi, police
sources and the Kenyan Red Cross said.
"At least ten people were wounded," a police source said.
Kenyan
Red Cross officials said they had sent emergency teams after an
"explosion near a mosque in Eastleigh," a largely ethnic Somali district
of Nairobi.
sources: Voice of Russia, AFP, BBC, RBC
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