Six killed in blast in Kenyan capital: emergency services

An explosion in an area of Kenya's capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed six people and wounded several others on Monday, the National Disaster Operations Centre said. In the past, such attacks in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi have been blamed on Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group, which attacked a Nairobi shopping mall in September and killed at least 67 people. "Police are securing the area for emergency response services," the disaster organisation said on its official Twitter site. Nairobi's police commander Benson Kibui told Reuters the incident might have involved twin blasts.