Attack on Kenyan church injures 11 people

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A suspected grenade attack on a church in the eastern Kenya town of Garissa wounded at least 11 people on Sunday (November 4), the Kenyan Red Cross and local media said.<br/> <br />Militants have staged several attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia a year ago to fight al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels following raids and kidnappings in the border region that threatened tourism and wider regional instability.<br/> <br />Of the 11 injured people at Garissa's district hospital, three were in need of air evacuation and the hospital urgently needed blood, the Kenya Red Cross said.<br/> <br />Mohamed Musa, superintendent of the hospital, told Reuters there had been no deaths reported.<br/> <br />Two television channels said the Utawala Interdenominational Church, in a police compound, had been attacked and that gunfire could still be heard at the scene of the blast. No one from the police was immediately available to comment.<br/> <br />In September, a grenade attack on a church in Nairobi by suspected al Shabaab sympathisers killed a nine-year-old boy. In July, attacks on two churches in Garissa killed 17.