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Police: More than one bomb exploded in Mombasa on Saturday

By Stanley Mwahanga and Willis Oketch | May. 6, 2014

A General Service Unit officer disperses a crowd at Mwembe Tayari on Saturday after experts blew up an abandoned suitcase wrongly suspected to be bearing a bomb. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

By Stanley Mwahanga and Willis Oketch

Mombasa, Kenya: Mombasa police believe that more than one home-made bomb was detonated at a busy bus stage in Mombasa in the Saturday evening blast. Police officers also revealed yesterday that the Improvised Explosive Devices were rigged with thousands of ball-bearings to inflict maximum damage.

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