Child killed in Kenya attack

A nine-year-old boy was killed and three other children wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into a Sunday school session in a church in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police and medical staff said.

Kenya has suffered a series of grenade attacks since it sent troops across the border into Somalia last October in pursuit of Islamist al Shabaab militants who it blamed for kidnapping its security personnel and Western tourists. The attack on the church came days after Kenyan troops launched a surprise offensive on the southern Somali port of Kismayu, forcing the rebels to flee.

Attackers threw the grenade into the Sunday school service in St Polycarp’s church on Nairobi’s Juja Road.