Four people among them two police officers were on Wednesday night killed when a vehicle they were escorting to Pangani Police Station in Nairobi was blew up.
The officers who had been manning a road block a few kilometres from the station intercepted the car and ordered the occupants to drive to Pangani Police Station for further investigations. Two of the officers got into the suspect car, a Toyota NZE, and and asked the driver and his passenger to drive to the police station. Other officers in a patrol car trailed them.
Soon after driving into the police station at around 8.50pm, the vehicle exploded.
Witnesses said that when they reached the station’s gate, the car exploded, killing the four occupants on the spot. The officers in the escort car were however unharmed as only the front tyres of their vehicle got deflated, and the windscreen shattered
A second explosive was safely detonated sending crowds of onlookers and journalists scampering out of fear.
The detonation of the second explosive device sent the milling crowd, including journalists andsecurity officers, running for cover.
The explosion comes at a time of a security operation codenamed Operation Usalama Watch launched to apprehend terrorists in the country.
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