(Sept 30, 2012, MOMBASA, Kenya)--A 9-year-old boy was killed and several other children
were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was hurled into a church in
Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, two days after Kenyan forces invaded the last
major stronghold of the Shabab militant group in Somalia.
No suspects have been apprehended, but suspicion immediately focused on sympathizers of the Shabab who have attacked several churches and public gathering spots in Kenya in the last year.
No suspects have been apprehended, but suspicion immediately focused on sympathizers of the Shabab who have attacked several churches and public gathering spots in Kenya in the last year.
Kenyan officials have said they do not believe that the relatively small
attacks are the work of the Shabab, whose fighters inside Somalia have
been trained in terrorist tactics and have killed hundreds of people
there with huge suicide bombs.
The Shabab’s supporters in Kenya do not have the skills or supplies to
stage large-scale operations and thus turn to less complicated attacks
like the one on Sunday. As the Kenyan military pushes deeper into Somalia, Kenyan officials have been bracing for reprisal attacks. Read more from New York Times »
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