Reports Leo Odera Omolo

Within less than twenty four hours another blast went off in a crowded Bus Park injuring more than 30 people. The police have confirmed one man died in the in blast.

It is suspected that a hand grenade was thrown at a crowded bus ark were many people living in the east lands of Nairobi were waiting to catch buses for home after day long business in the Central Business district.

Eye witnesses said the grenade was thrown from a moving motor vehicle, and it targeted the crowded bus park on the racecourse road on of the areas usually busy during the evening rush hours when many people are milling around waiting to catch buses for home.

The second blast came within less than twenty four hours after the first grenade attack was thrown into a crowded bar and night club in down Town, on Mfangano road. Nine people who sustained minor injuries and were rushed to the Kenyatta National Hospital where they were treated and later discharged to go home. Three of the victim’s one of them with badly damaged limp are still detained in the Hospital’s emergency wards.

In the first incident which took place at 1.30 A.M night guard at the facility told the Television news footage that someone had entered into the bar accompanied by a woman, but the man immediately disappeared into the darkness after throwing the grenade into the crowded by from outside.

The Police Commissioner Matthew Iteere later told the newsman last that the type of grenade used in the attack was a Russian made type A which is not commonly in use in Kenya.

Kenyans were unanimous that these series of attacks could be the work of Islamist extremist Al-Shabaab Somalis militia with close ties to Osma Bin Laden Al-qaeda terrorists.

The Somali militia had on Sunday issued threats that it would hit some targets inside Kenya as a revenge for Kenya military incursion deep into Southern region of Somalia. The region with its headquarter at Kismayu which is garrison town with sea port close to Kenya.

Kenya’s military jets have been pounding target deep into Somalia unchallenged thereby inflicting heavy causalities and sending the Al-Shababb rag-tag militias fleeing their previous stations.

The Al-Shabaab still control Kismayu and its environs, which they used as the major source of revenue, major root of supplies. The town is also known to be housing hundred of Somali piracy and criminal groups recently suspected to have been involved in kidnapping tourists in Kenya coastal tourists luxury sea front hotels, beaches and lodges. At the same time the Kenya Navy is maintaining a twenty four hours blockade of Kismayu.

It was, however, reported last night the troops of the UN/AU backed Interim Transitional Government combined with the au peacekeeping force are currently embroiled in the war are reportedly closing in on the Al-Shabaan last stronghold .

Reports of the latest grenade attack which occurred at around 8.p.local time is still very faint with some eye witnesses claiming they had counted for three person dead, but the police have insisted that only one died in the attack. The badly injured people were rushed to the various hospitals within the City.

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