{"id":173,"date":"2012-12-06T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?guid=67e0aaaf395e4f32c00b909da3df80e1"},"modified":"2015-02-28T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:12:15","slug":"blast-in-nairobi-somali-district-wounds-8-people-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/173","title":{"rendered":"Blast in Nairobi Somali district wounds 8 people, 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-20617516\" class=\"postlink\">BBC<\/a>) - One person has been killed and eight others wounded in a blast in a mainly Somali neighbourhood in Kenya's capital Nairobi, police say.<br \/><br \/>A roadside bomb exploded during rush hour traffic in the Eastleigh neighbourhood on Wednesday evening, police said.<br \/><br \/>Last month, a grenade blast in Eastleigh left seven people dead.<br \/><br \/>Kenya accuses Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group of trying to destabilise the country.<br \/><br \/>Reuters news agency reports that its correspondent at the explosion site saw pools of blood on the ground, as the wounded were swiftly moved away.<br \/><br \/>&quot;The explosion was caused by a roadside bomb which had been placed in a hole in the ground,&quot; Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama told the AFP news agency.<br \/><br \/>&quot;No arrests have been made yet, and investigations are already under way,&quot; he added.<br \/><br \/>Al-Shabab has not yet commented on the blast.<br \/><br \/>Last month, Kenya accused the group of launching a grenade attack on a bus in Eastleigh, killing seven people.<br \/><br \/>The attack triggered riots in the area, as angry youths burnt and looted Somali-owned shops.<br \/><br \/>Kenya's government has blamed al-Shabab for a spate of explosions and kidnappings on its territory.<br \/><br \/>Kenya last year sent its troops to fight al-Shabab in Somalia - they have now joined the 18,000-strong African Union (AU) force supporting the UN-backed government.<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-20617516\">BBC<\/a>) &#8211; One person has been killed and eight others wounded in a blast in a mainly Somali neighbourhood in Kenya&#8217;s capital Nairobi, police say.<\/p>\n<p>A roadside bomb exploded during rush hour traffic in the Eastleigh neighbourhood on Wednesday evening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a grenade blast in Eastleigh left seven people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya accuses Somalia&#8217;s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group of trying to destabilise the country.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters news agency reports that its correspondent at the explosion site saw pools of blood on the ground, as the wounded were swiftly moved away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explosion was caused by a roadside bomb which had been placed in a hole in the ground,&#8221; Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No arrests have been made yet, and investigations are already under way,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab has not yet commented on the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Kenya accused the group of launching a grenade attack on a bus in Eastleigh, killing seven people.<\/p>\n<p>The attack triggered riots in the area, as angry youths burnt and looted Somali-owned shops.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s government has blamed al-Shabab for a spate of explosions and kidnappings on its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya last year sent its troops to fight al-Shabab in Somalia &#8211; they have now joined the 18,000-strong African Union (AU) force supporting the UN-backed government.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/173\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}