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| Kenya children hurt 'in church grenade attack' | Kenya children hurt 'in church grenade attack' |
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| A number of children have been hurt in a grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, police and media say. | A number of children have been hurt in a grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, police and media say. |
| The attacker targeted the Sunday school section of St Polycarp's church on Juja Road. | |
| The Daily Nation newspaper said one child was killed. | The Daily Nation newspaper said one child was killed. |
| A spokesman for the police said they suspected sympathisers of Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist militants were to blame for the attack. | |
| The spokesman, Charles Owino, told Reuters news agency: "There was an attack at St Polycarp's church on Juja Road. Three children were injured." | |
| The Daily Nation quoted local police as saying that a number of those hurt at the church were injured in a stampede after the attack. | |
| Mr Owino added: "We suspect this blast might have been carried out by sympathisers of al-Shabab. These are the kicks of a dying horse since, of late, Kenyan police have arrested several suspects in connection with grenades." | |
| Kenyan troops are at present part of an African Union force that has forced al-Shabab from its last Somali urban stronghold of Kismayo. | |
| 'Another Nigeria' | 'Another Nigeria' |
| Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa have suffered a series of grenade attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia last October. | |
| The attacks in Mombasa escalated after radical Islamist preacher Aboud Rogo Mohammed was killed in a drive-by shooting in August. | |
| In July, 15 people were killed in raids on churches in Garissa, near Kenya's border with Somalia. | In July, 15 people were killed in raids on churches in Garissa, near Kenya's border with Somalia. |
| There was speculation that al-Shabab or its sympathisers were responsible. | |
| Those attacks prompted the country's Inter-Religious Council chairman to urge a united front against sectarian division. | |
| Adan Wachu told the BBC Network Africa programme at the time: "There are people out there who are determined to make Kenya another Nigeria. | |
| "It's not going to be allowed to have a sectarian division in this country - whoever wants to do that will of course fail." | "It's not going to be allowed to have a sectarian division in this country - whoever wants to do that will of course fail." |
| Attacks on churches in Nigeria have been frequent this year. | Attacks on churches in Nigeria have been frequent this year. |
| Many of them have been blamed on the Boko Haram group, which wants to establish Islamic law in a country where the north is largely Muslim and the south mainly Christian and animist. | Many of them have been blamed on the Boko Haram group, which wants to establish Islamic law in a country where the north is largely Muslim and the south mainly Christian and animist. |