Two people were on Wednesday night wounded after unknown assailants hurled two grenades into a hotel in Garissa. This comes just hours after the last in a series of brutal attacks that have since left over 60 people dead in less than two weeks.
In the Garissa incident, the attackers were said to have been surveying the newly opened food joint at Bulla Adhan area a few minutes earlier before returning with the grenades.
"They hurled the first grenade which missed to hit the lady owner of the hotel, then blasted a second one which caught the arm of a cook and a patron," St John's Ambulance said in a statement.
The two casualties were rushed to Garissa County Referral Hospital with one of them sustaining a fracture on his fingers, with the other having shrapnel cuts on the shoulder and arm.
There was only one patron during the blast as the hotel was just about to be closed for the day.
Garissa county police boss Musa Yego confirmed the attack while police officers cordoned the scene of crime for further investigations.
Sporadic acts of violence have recently become common in Garissa in what is viewed as a countrywide deterioration in security.
In a previous attack on the 22nd of November, gunmen hijacked a bus and killed 28 non-Muslim passengers near Mandera town while on Tuesday, militants killed 36 non-Muslim quarry workers in the same region.
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