Kwani Walikua na Ngapi? Fear as Bomb Experts Find More Grenades at Riverside

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Kenyan bomb disposal experts on Thursday found and safely detonated an explosive left over from the deadly extremist attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex, and the Kenya Red Cross said no one appeared to be missing after it had checked nearly 100 reported cases.

The Kenyan government said its quick reaction to Tuesday’s assault on the dusitD2 complex reflected improvements in its ability to respond to such brazen assaults on civilian targets. It was “much better handled” in comparison to the 2013 attack on the nearby Westgate Mall, said Joseph Mucheru, the information minister. Police took hours to respond to that attack and official information was scarce or conflicting, leading to reforms.

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“The speed, the response and the conclusion of this matter was swift,” the minister told journalists.

Al-Shabab, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group that carried out the 2013 attack that killed 67 people, also claimed responsibility for the hotel assault this week that took the lives of 20 civilians, one police officer and five attackers.

On Thursday, the Kenya Red Cross said all cases of people who were reported missing had been “closed positively.” Some family members had struggled to locate relatives, some of whom fled the dusitD2 complex without phones and other belongings.

The police tweeted that security teams were still looking for remaining explosives and urged “the public not to panic should they hear a blast since it will be a safe blast.”

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