BREAKING NEWS - 3 killed, 27 injured in fresh Kenya attacks

[anonymousfaarax]

I hope these are not innocent Somali/Muslim people.

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Grenade attacks kill three in Kenya


TWO grenade attacks in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa close to the border with Somalia have killed three people and injured 27, police say.

One explosion in the local Holiday Inn killed two people while another in a street killed a third, a local police officer said today, adding that 12 of the injured were in a serious condition.

"Two people died at the new Holiday Inn hotel known as Kwa Chege. Another died at a Ngamia road blast," the police officer said.

"Twenty-seven people were injured in total, 12 of them seriously and 15 sustaining minor injuries."

Asked what caused the blasts he said: "These were grenades."

He added that most of the wounded suffered shrapnel injuries.

Local resident Hussein Abdi described scenes of panic in the centre of the town where the blasts occurred, with people trying to escape from the scene of the attacks.

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Garissa is the capital of Northeast province, 330km north-east of Nairobi. The town lies just 100km from the Somali border and 70km from Dadaab, a complex of Somali refugee camps.

Nairobi sent troops and tanks into neighbouring Somalia in mid-October to fight Islamist insurgents who it accuses of staging a series of attacks on Kenyan soil.

Since the deployment, the north-east of the country has been the focus for a series of attacks blamed by Kenyan authorities on sympathisers of the al-Shabab Islamist insurgency, which controls large areas of central and southern Somalia.