Grenade hits Nairobi club, 14 people wounded: report

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NAIROBI | Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:42pm EDT

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A grenade hit a club in the center of Nairobi early Monday, wounding 14 people, Kenyan media reported.

The Standard newspaper reported the incident in a breaking news text message.

The incident comes a week after Kenya launched a cross-border operation against al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants in southern Somalia after a wave of kidnappings of foreigners on Kenyan soil.

Al Shabaab had threatened major reprisals if Kenyan troops did not withdraw, prompting the U.S. embassy in Kenya to warn of an 'imminent threat' of a terrorist attack in the East African country.

(Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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Grenade attack on Kenya nightclub

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24 October 2011 Last updated at 01:04 GMT A grenade attack on a nightclub in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has left 14 people injured, say police.

The grenade was throw in the club early on Monday morning - the motive was not immediately clear.

The attack comes a week after Kenya sent troops into Somalia to track down members of the militant group al-Shabab, which Nairobi blames for a series of kidnappings in recent weeks.

Al-Shabab had threatened reprisal attacks if the troops did not leave.

The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, has denied carrying out any abductions.

Last week, Kenya announced it would carry out a major security operation in Nairobi to flush out al-Shabab sympathisers once its Somalia operation had ended.

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