NAIROBI - a bomb in a city centre bus station in Kenya's capital late Monday exploded as passengers a bus on Board at least one person killed and wounded said up to 39 other police. Suspicion of a Somali militant group centered.
The person who was killed was a piece that contain the bomb, said Police Chief Mathew k. Iteere. It was not immediately clear if it was a suicide attack, said Mr Iteere.
Most of the wounded Ugandans were trips home for Christmas, Red Cross official Nelly Muluka said.
Al-Shabab, Somalia's most dangerous militant group, has threatened more attacks on Uganda and Burundi perform the two Nations, contribute troops for the 8,000 strong African Union force in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. Twin bombings in July in Uganda, which claims that killed by al Shabab 76.
A security official in Nairobi said Uganda and Burundi high alert been since early November that they would be directed by al Shabab. The official languages on condition of anonymity because he was allowed by his organization to be identified.
Mrs Muluka set 39 the toll of people wounded. Mr Iteere said one person was killed and wounded from 26.
The explosion took place, so how people get started with a bus line, called the Kampala coach, a line, the major cities in East Africa, including the capital of Uganda is Kampala. Window on the front of the bus were shattered the bus, but unsustainable large structural damage.
Mr Iteere said the explosion is happening, shown just as the person who was implementation of the baggage. It is common in Kenya, screen passengers for weapons that could be used to perform possible kidnapping in rural areas.
"I felt like I by an electric shock was taken", said Jack Wachira, 49 which escorted a friend to the bus station. "If my leg, I thought the particles I stepped on electrical wires." "Then I heard the explosion."
Vincent Sekatte, a police spokesman in Uganda, said that threats against his country "been on for a while."
"The terrorists have threatened always, to beat during the Christmas season." Tomorrow a stern warning of the public about the dangers will receive, "Said Mr Sekatte."
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