Suspected Suicide Blast Rocks Kenyan Capital
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

NAIROBI: At least one person was killed and dozens injured Monday by a bomb blast during morning rush hour in the Kenyan capital Nairobi thought to be the work of a suicide bomber.

The remains of the suspected perpetrator lay beside a broken hawker's table surrounded by debris and shattered glass near the blood-stained walls of a central Nairobi hotel.

One witness, 30-year-old Joshua Kinyanjui, said he saw the bomber carrying a device in a bag when it detonated.

"There were two men walking together one was carrying a bag. There was an explosion, one guy was blown up, the other one fell down next to him. "They looked like Africans, they were wearing casual clothes.

They were walking towards the Ambassadeur Hotel," he added.

The explosion was only a few hundred metres from where a massive blast ripped through the US embassy in 1998 leaving 213 people dead. That attack was claimed by Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

Police and aid officials said they suspected Monday's attack in front of the crowded City Gate restaurant on Moi Avenue, one of Nairobi's main streets, was carried out by a suicide bomber who was the only fatality in the blast.●