Kenya police van explodes after man hurls device

An explosion ripped through a police van in Kenya's capital after a man hurled a device into the vehicle carrying police officers, a police official said on Friday.

It was not immediately clear whether there were any deaths in the attack carried out in a predominantly Somali suburb, but at least one officer was seriously wounded.

"There were at least two officers in the Land Rover pick-up. A man threw what we suspect could be a grenade or another device into the vehicle, and it exploded," Francis Mburu, the Nairobi provincial administrative commander told Reuters from the hospital where he said one of the officers was being treated.