Car with explosives traces found
A bomb disposal expert at the scene where a car suspected to be laden with explosives was found abandoned near Don Bosco Secondary School in Pangani, Nairobi, on April 24, 2014. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL
What you need to know:
- A sniffer dog detected bomb-making material in the car, parked a few metres from Don Bosco Secondary School
Business came to a halt for some hours in Nairobi’s Pangani on Thursday after a car suspected to be laden with explosives was found abandoned near a school.
Police received a tip-off in the morning that a Toyota Probox was parked in the middle of a road a few kilometres from Pangani Police Station where two officers and two suspected terrorists were killed in a car bomb hours earlier.
The car was in the middle of a residential area known as Crossroads, with some houses less than 10 metres away.
A sniffer dog detected bomb-making material in the car, parked a few metres from Don Bosco Secondary School.
Two attempts to remotely detonate any explosives that might have been in the car failed.
After three hours of consultations, the security officers eventually opened the car but did not find any explosives.
They, however, confirmed that the car, registration number KBN 377H, had recently carried explosives or bomb-making materials.
The incident comes a month after police in Mombasa arrested two men in Changamwe and found explosives under the seats of their vehicle.
