Two bombs went off in a crowded market in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, yesterday, killing around 10 people, eyewitnesses have said. The latest attack comes days after Britain, United States, France and Australia issued travel warnings to their nationals on holiday in the country regarded by many as a tourist destination.
Apart from the 10 who lost their lives, about 70 others sustained serious injuries, prompting the Kenya Red Cross to call for blood donations.According to reports by Reuters, one explosion struck a minibus taxi, shattering the windows and flattening its tyres. It was near a market best known for selling second-hand clothes from wooden stalls with corrugated iron roofs. The second blast occurred near the same market.
This is not the first time the country is suffering attacks from terrorist groups – it is in fact among a growing list. Last September, fighters loyal to al Shabaab, killed 67 people in a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall.
The United States embassy was bombed on August 7, 1998, killing about 213 people. The attacks, most master-minded by fighters from al Shabaab, is seen as retaliation for Kenya’s military involvement in Somalia, a stronghold of the terrorist group in the East-African sub-region.
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