NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- At least 12 people were injured when a grenade exploded in a nightclub in Kenya's capital after weekend warnings from the U.S. embassy of violence.
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi during the weekend warned of an "imminent threat" of attacks in the country. On Monday morning, a grenade exploded inside Mwauras nightclub in central Nairobi, injuring 12 people, the BBC reports.
A local news station, the BBC adds, reported a single person was let into the club early Monday morning, threw a grenade into the crowd and fled.
The attack comes after al-Shabaab warned Kenya that its fighters could take on the Kenyan military, which stormed across the border into Somalia last week in response to a spate of kidnappings along the northern Kenyan border.
Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said from Nairobi that the attack was an answer to Kenyan forces participating in an offensive in Somalia that I targeting al-Shabaab.
