There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, though suspicions will fall on Somali Islamist militants and their sympathisers in Kenya. Police initially said the blast might have been caused by that an electrical fault.
More than ten people have been killed in a string of attacks in Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to fight al Qaeda-linked militants.
Nairobi has blamed the al Shabaab militants, who merged with al Qaeda earlier this year, for the surge in violence and kidnappings that has threatened tourism in east Africa`s biggest economy and wider regional destabilisation. (*)
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