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Military detonates explosive device in Nakuru

Bomb experts from Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) carry a 60 Millimeter high explosive bomb which was recovered by a worker while tilling a garden at Kaptembwa slums Nakuru county on March 21, 2018. [Photo by Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Bomb experts from the military yesterday detonated a bomb found in a plot in Nakuru County. Police officers had a hard time controlling hundreds of Kaptembwa residents milling around the area.

Wesley Langat, owner of the plot where the explosive was found, said it was recovered by a worker he had paid to till the land that had been idle for at least a decade.

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