AFP: Three people were killed and eight wounded in a blast outside a mosque in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the Kenyan Red Cross and police said today.          There were "three fatalities" as well as several wounded, some critical, a Red Cross official said after the "explosion near a mosque in Eastleigh", a largely ethnic Somali district of Nairobi.         

"We were told that three people have died of injuries from the incident," Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama told AFP, "There are eight others in hospital, among them is a member ofparliament."         

The grenade was hurled at worshippers leaving a popular mosque minutes after the end of the evening prayers. A handful of protesters took to the streets soon after the blast but were quickly contained by a heavy police presence.