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Pastor Killed in Grenade Attack in Kenya

November 6, 2012 | Africa
November 6, 2012
AfricaKenya

ICC Note:
A pastor was killed and 11 others were injured in Garissa on Sunday when a grenade was launched through the roof of a church that was holding Sunday worship. This is the second serious attack against a church in Garissa. On July 1, grenades were thrown into the African Inland Church in Garissa. As church members attempted to escape the grenades they were shot by gunmen standing outside the church. 17 were killed and around 100 were wounded. 
11/6/2012 Kenya (ChristianPost) – A pastor was killed and 11 others were wounded in Garissa in eastern Kenya on Sunday after suspected Islamist extremists attacked a church during the worship service with a grenade or other explosive.
The blast took place at the Utawala Interdenominational church in the Administrative Police compound in the town of Garissa at 10 a.m. on Sunday. The church is situated in a predominately Muslim area.
Morning Star News identified the pastor who was killed as Julius Mukonzi, and reported that at least three of the 11 injured had wounds so serious they were air-lifted to Kenyatta General Hospital in Nairobi.
The grenade was launched through the sheet-iron roof of the church building, a source was quoted as saying. It was said to have “landed right at the podium where the chaplain was delivering a church sermon, hitting him right at the forehead, and he died immediately.”
The services ended prematurely, “then followed several gun shots,” the source added.
On Sept. 30, a 9-year-old boy was killed and several others were hurt in a grenade attack on a children’s Sunday school class at the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) St. Polycarp church in the Pagani area in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
More than 80 percent of the 43 million people in Kenya are Christian, and Muslims account for less than 9 percent.

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