Kenya blasts kill 1, injure 24

The Saturday evening attacks came as Kenya gears up for the Easter tourist season.

A grenade was hurled at a restaurant in the north of Mombasa, at around 8.00 p.m. local time. Three people, including one police officer, sustained minor injuries, Coast province police chief Aggrey Adoli told reporters at the scene.

Minutes later, in Mtwapa, which lies 10km from Mombasa, a blast at a gathering killed one person and injured 21 others, with two being left in a critical condition.

The blasts were the latest in the string of attacks to hit the east African country since it sent troops into neighboring Somalia last October. Until now, attacks had centered on the capital, Nairobi, and in areas closer to Kenya’s border with Somalia.

The government has blamed previous attacks on Somali-based al-Shabab fighters.

Earlier this month, Kenyan police arrested four people after a grenade attack at a crowded Nairobi bus station that killed nine and wounded 40, an attack authorities blamed on the Somali militants.

Somalia has been the scene of a decades-long civil strife that erupted after the ouster of former junta ruler Mohammed Siad Barre, which has left the country without a functioning government since 1991.

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