Grenade attack hits Kenya club

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Attack on discotheque in the bustling centre of Nairobi wounds 14 people, say police. Last Modified: 24 Oct 2011 03:06

The Mwauras disco was the target of a grenade attack that wounded 14 club goers on Monday morning [Reuters] A grenade was thrown into a discotheque in the Kenyan capital Nairobi wounding 14 people, central Nairobi police chief Eric Mugambi said. "Initial investigations show it is a grenade that was thrown inside. Fourteen people have been injured," Mugambi said early on Monday. The Mwauras disco is in the bustling centre of Nairobi, popular with night-clubbers. The injured were taken to Nairobi's national Kenyatta Hospital. Bernard Momanyi, a journalist in Nairobi, told Al Jazeera that all of those wounded were Kenyan nationals. The US embassy in Nairobi had warned on Saturday of an "imminent threat" of attacks possibly targeting foreigners, one week after Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to hunt down members of the armed group al-Shabab. The embassy cited "credible information of an imminent threat of terrorist attacks directed at prominent Kenyan facilities and areas where foreigners are known to congregate, such as malls and night clubs." Last week, Kenya sent troops across its border with Somalia to hunt al-Shabab fighters it blames for the abductions of a British tourist, a disabled French woman who has since died in captivity and two Spanish aid workers. Al-Shabab, who deny kidnapping foreigners, have repeatedly warned of bloody retaliation. However the Kenyan police did not immediately link the discotheque attack to these threats.