قتيل و 15 جريحاً بتفجير كنيسة في كينيا

One person was killed and 15 wounded were injured yesterday, when a grenade exploded during Mass at a church in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, in the second attack in less than a month targeting Christians in Kenya. Witnesses reported that unknown sat in the audience threw a grenade after the start of the Mass before running away.

The official said the local police Gishange Joseph: «One person was killed and wounded more than a dozen wounded» throwing a hand grenade at the start of a long sermon.

Police said later that 15 people were wounded.

On 31 March last, was thrown a grenade at a group of worshipers were out in the Church of Mitwaba on the Kenyan coast on the Indian Ocean, killing people dead and 15 wounded.

The Minister of Internal Security Kenyan George Saitoti said at the time that this attack and another attack occurred minutes later the same day, targeted a restaurant in the city of Mombasa (three injured) «was carried out by young people» Islamist insurgents who fights them Kenyan army since October last October in Somalia.

He said police spokesman Assistant Nairobi Niakoama Moses: «We have a sketch of the aggressor and the investigation is under way (...) do not know the motives of the attack, but we do not rule out any hypothesis».

According to a press that the attack targeted the church, located in Ngara district near the city center.

The reporter said that traces of blood were visible near the altar of the church, which was thrown a grenade at him.

A witness named Samuel Kimani Mwandhati: «It was terrible. Worshipers were screaming and blood everywhere ».

He added: «immediately began helping people and then observed a man lying on the ground. Not to move mightily in and show us that either killed or seriously wounded ».

Kimani said the owner of the place is located near the Church: «I heard a strong explosion and rushed me to the church, thinking that the fire broke out because the smoke was rising from it».

The witness added: «Then I saw people screaming and some were trying to aid the wounded. We tried to help more than 10 people in cars to take them to hospitals, but a man was seriously injured died on the way to the hospital ».

And Roy View the latest named Kennedy and Asaloa: «We saw a man running after the explosion, and when it is our right to gun towards us Fihribna».

Flock and a large number of worshipers in Kenya every morning to a church to attend the liturgy. The majority of Kenya's population of Catholics.

The deadliest attack took place on 10 March last at a bus station and resulted in nine deaths and more than sixty wounded.

And the rule of a young man Kenny sympathetic with young people for the first two attacks in October (October), while another questioned and then released after the attack, which occurred last month.

And threatened a youth movement that recently announced its allegiance to the organization «Qaeda», repeatedly carrying out revenge in Kenya after the intervention militarily in Somalia, but confirmed in March last it «not involved in these attacks, small» in reference to the attacks that have been used in hand grenades.

She stressed the U.S. Embassy in Kenya on Monday that it has «credible information» regarding «a possible attack in the final stages of preparation» has targeted a government building or a hotel in Nairobi.