Attacks mar Kenyan independence anniversary

Fifteen people have been killed in four attacks in Kenya during week-long celebrations to mark the country’s 50th anniversary of independence, including the first attack on tourists in two years.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks – the most recent of which was an explosion on a Nairobi bus that killed six people on Saturday – and there have been no arrests.
Kenya has been the target of sustained attacks since the army sent troops into neighbouring Somalia to fight the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents in October 2011.
Eastern Kenya, along the 700-kilometre border with Somalia, has been particularly hard hit.
Experts are reluctant to draw any link between the armed conflict with the Shebab and the latest series of attacks. One Western observer told AFP that, as yet, there was “no evidence” to link the attacks.
Late Friday, one person was killed and three injured in a double explosion at a market in the town of Wajir, some 100 kilometres from the Somali border.
On Tuesday, eight people were killed, including five policeman, in the Garissa region some 20 kilometres from the Somalian frontier after their vehicle was attacked in an apparent ambush.
Nairobi Police Chief Benson Kibue said a suspect was being questioned over the attack on the 32-seat vehicle, which came from the Eastleigh neighbourhood, dubbed “Little Mogadishu” because it is mainly populated by Somali immigrants and Kenyans of Somali origin.
“We lost two of the victims in hospital where about 30 others are still admitted,” Kibue said. “We now have six people dead out of that incident.”