Second Grenade Terror Attack Hits Kenyan Capital

From Sky News:

A second grenade attack has occurred in Nairobi, two days after the US warned of an impending terror blitz in the Kenyan capital.

At least one person died and eight were injured after the blast at a crowded bus stop during the rush hour on Monday evening.

Peter Ndungu Kiarie, 35, said he was in his vehicle when he heard the second explosion and saw people rushing toward him.

"I assisted some until an ambulance came," he said.

Many people were wounded in the legs, he said, suggesting the explosive device was lying on the ground.

The first blast occurred at 1.15am on Monday morning when a grenade exploded inside a working class Nairobi bar.

A dozen people suffered horrific burns and shrapnel wounds in the nightclub attack, three seriously.

Witnesses said they saw a man trying to enter the Nairobi club before hurling the explosive device inside the front door.

Victims were rushed to hospital and later told of the panic inside the nightspot when the "loud explosion" happened.

Kevin Otieno described the incident as "hell" and said he was "lucky to be alive".

Another bar-goer Jonah Mwangi, who is recovering in hospital, said: "It was so loud and immediately I started feeling pain and blood splashing at me and we were just trying to get out."

Police have linked the bomb blast to the militant Somali group, al Shabaab, who last week warned of reprisal attacks in Kenya after troops were sent over the border.

Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere told a news conference that the authorities could not yet name suspects from the first blast.

No group has admitted being behind the incident.

Nairobi soldiers crossed the Somali border last week to hunt the al Qaeda-linked fighters it blames for a wave of kidnappings of foreigners, including a British tourist, on Kenyan soil.

They claim the kidnappings have threatened the country's multi-million dollar tourism industry.

Al Shabaab has denied holding foreigners captive and has repeatedly threatened major reprisals if Kenyan troops did not withdraw.

Last week, six people were killed in a suicide attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, near a meeting involving two Kenyan ministers.