Regional police commander, Moses Ombati confirmed that only two people were injured during the clashes between ethnics Somalis blamed for increased grenade and bomb attacks in the city and Kenyans residing in neighboring slums.

"Only two people were injured in the clashes between the two rival groups. I have been Eastleigh until now. There were no more casualties other than those two. The situation is returning back to normal and there is no cause for alarm. Everything is under control now," Ombati told Xinhua.

Business premises operating along Juja road closed as police engaged the rioting youths in running battles for the better day of the day. Business owners feared that the protesting youths might attack them and loot their shops.

The riots erupted on Sunday after a grenade was hurled on a public service vehicle, killing at least seven people and injuring over 30 others.

According to the Kenya Red Cross Society, (KRCS), at least four people were injured in the second day of violence in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi.

However, eye witnesses said the number could be more than 20 as machete-wielding youths clashes along Juja-road in Nairobi.

Heavily armed security officers deployed to contain the clashes were forced to fire rubber bullets into the air and teargas to disperse angry rioters

According to the Kenyan Red Cross, the four people were rushed to the Kenyatta National Hospital for emergency care.

The marauding youths from Mathare, Kariobangi and Huruma slums beat up many Kenyans of Somali extraction, blaming them for Sunday's grenade attacks in which seven Kenyans were killed and 34 others injured.

"The police did their best to contain the situation here in Eastleigh. Relative calm has returned and some businesses have reopened. The police have left and things are now okay," Boniface Wafula who resides in Eastleigh told Xinhua.

The attack on the vehicle on Sunday is blamed on Al-Shabaab sympthizers but the police have warned residents and travelers to be extra vigilant and volunteer any information that may assist in the investigations.

Kenya has blamed Somalia's Al-Qaida-linked Al-Shabaab militants for a spate of attacks in Kenya in recent years especially in Nairobi, Mombasa and northern regions.

However, the insurgents have not publicly claimed responsibility for the Sunday attacks.

The East African nation has experienced a string of attacks on churches and public places in the recent past, blaming them on the insurgents from Somalia who have vowed to attack Kenya because Kenyan military forces entered Somalia last year to fight against the group.

The move came as the British government revised its travel advisory for Kenya, cautioning its nationals against all but essential travel in various parts of the East African nation.

"This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the travel summary and the terrorism section, a grenade was thrown at a bus near to St Teresa's church on First Avenue in Eastleigh, on Nov. 18 and the Kidnapping section," it said.

According to travel advisory, London said the overall level of the advice has not changed advice against all but essential travel to the Tana River delta triangle, to within 60 km of the Somali border (including Kiwayu and coastal areas north of Pate Island), to Garissa district and to low income areas of Nairobi, including all township or slum areas.

"We advise against all but essential travel to the Tana River delta triangle. This area is bounded by but not including the southernmost point of Tana River Primate National Park in the north, up to and including the B8 road to Robinson Island in the west, up to and including the C112 in the north, and the coast line to the south east)."

On Nov. 10 at least 42 police officers were brutally killed and 13 others seriously injured in Kenya's northwest region of Samburu from clashes with cattle rustlers.

The travel advisory urged British citizens against travelling in rural areas, particularly the arid north and north eastern parts of Kenya which experience sporadic cattle rustling, banditry and ethnic clashes which regularly cause fatalities.

"Travel by foreigners to rural and isolated areas of the north and northeast should be undertaken with care. Contact the local police before you travel and consider travelling in convoy," reads the advisory.

The grenade and landmine explosions came as the biggest warning to Kenya so far that the insurgents are keen to orchestrate devastating terror attacks in the country after the capture of their strategic port city of Kismayo which served as the revenue collection center.

The trend of the attacks particularly in northern Kenya, Nairobi and Mombasa which seemingly are well coordinated since several suspects have been arrested, has heightened worries among Kenyans.

Source: www.xinhuanet.com