Rioters attack ethnic Somalis after bomb attack in Kenyan capital

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Nov 19, 2012, 10:31 PM
Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty ImagesKenyan police officers detain a man in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday. GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains images which some viewers may find disturbing.

Updated at 12:45 pm ETTony Karumba / AFP - Getty ImagesA youth of non-Somali ethinicity is armed with stones on Monday during inter-ethnic clashes in Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb. Reuters reports — Kenyan police fired tear gas to disperse rioters who attacked ethnic Somalis in  the Nairobi district known as "Little Mogadishu" on Monday, hurling rocks and  smashing windows after a weekend bomb attack there killed nine people.

The violence coincided with the start of voter registration for a  general election in March, adding to security concerns ahead of the first  national polls since 2007 when a dispute over the results fuelled ethnic  slaughter that killed more than 1,200 people and forced some 300,000 from their  homes.

Angry mobs broke into Somali homes and shops in anger at Sunday's attack on a  minibus which killed at least nine people in Nairobi's Eastleigh district which  is dominated by Somali Kenyans and their ethnic kin who have fled fighting in  Somalia.

Read the full story.Daniel Irungu / EPAAngry ethnic Somali youths shout slogans as they face off Kenyan youths during a riot in the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday.Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty ImagesA Kenyan Police officer with a guard dog tries to control a crowd in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday. Kenyan residents in Eastleigh turned on Somalis and attacked their shops and stalls, accusing them of being responsible for a bomb on Sunday.Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty ImagesA suspected looter is restrained by a policeman with a dog in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday. Tony Karumba / AFP - Getty ImagesA man bleeds after he was attacked with machetes by people of Somali ethnicity on Monday during inter-ethnic clashes in Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb. Noor Khamis / ReutersMathare slum residents escape from a cloud of tear gas thrown by the police during the second day of skirmishes in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Kenya's capital Nairobi on November 19, 2012.Follow @NBCNewsPictures

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