This is still a developing story early this morning. Tandoori Bar, a popular tourist hangout in Diani, has been blown up. A local contact has told me all the injured are Kenyans.
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christopher_haslett
Local reliable contacts are telling me 8 Kenyans hurt, four from Nairobi. The grenade was thrown into the bar from a passing motorcycle (a popular tactic here) and hit the pool table area.
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doffcocker
Sadly not a 'Major terror attack' but the latest in an increasingly long line of grenade attacks, primarily aimed at working class Kenyans, following on from the Mtwapa Prayer meeting, the Bella Vista bar in Mombasa town, Jericho Beer Garden in Kisauni at the coast and several others around the country targeting churches, bus halts, markets, etc.
The MO seems to be the same, throw a grenade and run / ride away, though it may be that this is different and has a more 'Major' effect as it seems to be its target is a bar that tourists as well as locals attend
As always my thoughts are with the victims and their familes, though at least in this one it seems that, as yet, there have been no fatalities
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