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Kenya: Terrorist attack suspected in Nairobi blast – 6 killed
(Reuters) – An explosion in an area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed 6 people and wounded several others on Monday, the National Disaster Operations Center said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. In the past, such attacks in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi have been blamed on Somalia’s al-Qaeda affliated al-Shabaab Islamist group, which attacked a Nairobi shopping mall in September last year and killed at least 67 people.
“Police are securing the area for emergency response services,” the disaster organization said on its official Twitter site.
Nine people were critically injured, it added.
Nairobi’s police commander Benson Kibui told reporters the incident might have involved twin blasts. He confirmed the 5 dead and said he was seeking confirmation of a sixth killed.
Ambulances and private cars ferried injured to hospital, a witness said.
On Sunday, a man suspected of assembling a bomb was killed when it went off where he lived near Eastleigh, Kenyan newspapers reported.
