One person was injured on Saturday evening after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device exploded at Latema-Tom Mboya junction in Nairobi.
According to police and witnesses, luggage that was sealed in a cartoon had the explosives.
“We’re at the scene trying to establish what transpired,” Central Police boss Robinson Thuku told the news rooms.
According to preliminary reports, a middle-aged man had procured the help of a cart-puller to carry an unidentified package across the city.
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The two reportedly walked together up to the the junction between Latema road and Tom Mboya street.
The stranger reportedly claimed to have forgotten his Identity Card at a shop across the street and excused himself to go back get it.
The improvised explosive device went off moments later with shrapnel hurting the cart-puller on the arm and injuring a newspaper vendor on the foot.
Police sealed off the usually crowded area which serves as a bus terminus for more than five Saccos plying different routes within the city.