A grenade attack killed six people and injured 63 others at a central Nairobi bus station. Police believe the grenades were thrown from a car into a crowd of locals near the central business district of the Kenyan capital. The incident is similar to another attack at a nearby bus station and a bar that killed one person and injured more than 20 in October last year. Soon afterwards the Kenyan military was sent to Somalia to fight Islamic rebels.
Kenyan authorities suspect that Somalia's al-Shabaab terrorist group, which is linked with al-Qaeda, could be behind the attack. Al-Shabaab has been suspected of carrying out a number of attacks on Kenyan soil since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October last year, following several kidnappings and attacks within the country that were linked to al-Shabaab. Kenya, which receives US support that includes military training, says its forces will stay in Somalia until the insurgents are defeated.
