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Two people have been killed and at least 62 others were wounded in two explosions on passenger buses in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say.<\/p>\n

Both blasts went off on Thika road, a busy highway north-east of the city.<\/p>\n

The buses were crowded at the time of the explosions, which police said were caused by improvised devices.<\/p>\n

\"_74638893_afp\"<\/a>Sunday’s attack was the second in Kenya in as many days. Recent violence has been blamed by the government on Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the two explosions went off outside a hotel and at an underpass not far from Kasarani, north-east of the capital.<\/p>\n

Kenya’s National Disaster Operations Centre said 20 of those wounded were in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The buses were badly damaged by the explosions. Television footage showed a gaping hole in one, while the doors and windows were blown out of the other.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a grenade was thrown in a bus in the coastal city of Mombasa leaving four people dead and another 15 wounded. The bus had just travelled from Nairobi. There was a second blast near a beach-front hotel, but no-one was hurt.<\/p>\n

The al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab has launched a series of attacks against Kenyan targets in recent years in retaliation for Kenya’s military involvement in Somalia since 2011.<\/p>\n

In September, at least 67 people were killed when al-Shabab fighters seized the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi for four days.<\/p>\n

Kenya has vowed to halt attacks by militant Islamists and arrested some 2,000 people in the capital last month.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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