Nairobi (Sunatimes) At least 14 people have been wounded in a grenade attack on a bar in the centre of Kenyan capital, Nairobi early on Monday.

Kenyan police said 14 people have been wounded with no deaths. But medical sources in Kenyatta National Hospital have reportedly confirmed that two died of their injuries while the rest were discharged.

An eyewitness told local media outlets that a man had asked to be let in to the bar shortly after 3 a.m. (0000 GMT), when he hurled a grenade and fled the scene.

Kenyan police say they are linking a grenade attack to the recent threats against Kenya issued by Al-Shabaab fighters.

It followed warnings of attacks by Al-Shabaab after Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to hunt down members of the armed group, who are blamed for a series of recent abductions near the Somali border.

The blast came two days after the U.S. embassy in Kenya warned of an ‘imminent threat’ of a terrorist attack in Nairobi after the east African country launched a military campaign against Islamist Al-Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia.

Nairobi blames the militants for a wave of kidnappings of foreigners on Kenyan soil that have threatened the country’s multi-million dollar tourism industry.

Al-Shabaab had threatened major reprisals if Kenyan troops did not withdraw and the militants have launched large-scale suicide bombings in the past.

According to The Standard, Somalia’s Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility of the incident and the motive of the attack is yet to be known.

By Fuad Mohamed