Church grenade attack kills child in Kenya

(Vatican Radio) In Kenya, a child was killed during a grenade attack yesterday on a church in Nairobi. Hours later, two police officers were shot dead in a town near the Somali border. Both attacks are being blamed on the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabab. The grenade was thrown into a Sunday school classroom at St. Polycarp Church in the capital, killing on small boy, and seriously injuring three other children. Many other people were hurt when people fled the scene. Fifteen Somalis living in Nairobi were later injured in what has been described as a revenge attack. Meanwhile, hours later, two police officers were shot dead in Garissa, a Kenyan town close to the border with Somalia. The same town was the scene of an attack on two churches back in July, which killed 17 people. Kenya sent troops into Somalia last October in response to a series of kidnappings in Kenya by al-Shabab. Since then, at least 48 people have been killed and 200 injured in a series of grenade and gun attacks throughout Kenya.

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