Kenya: 6 killed in suspected terror attack

Explosions at one of the Kenyan capital’s main bus terminals killed at least six people and left two dozen others wounded Saturday, officials and witnesses said.

Red Cross official Nelly Muluka-Oluoch said 12 of the wounded are in critical condition.

One man who was wounded in the arms and legs while he was buying a bus ticket said he heard two explosions.

“It was the second one that got me,” said Frederick Shikutu, 36, as he was being loaded into an ambulance.

The blasts are the latest in a string of small arms, bomb and grenade attacks that have killed scores of people since Kenya sent troops across the border into neighboring Somalia in October. The incursion followed a string of attacks by Somali gunmen on Kenyan soil.

Police said that the four explosives were thrown out of a moving vehicle over a stretch of about 100 meters. The vehicle is believed to have sped off towards the eastern part of the city although witnesses were vague about the description of the vehicle since the attacks occurred after darkness had set in.

Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked insurgency (the al-Shabaab), vowed revenge and incited sympathizers to carry out attacks in Kenya.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.