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ATPU takes over Garden City Mall bomb scare case

The device that was recovered from three men at the Garden City Mall, along Thika Superhighway. (Photo: Courtesy)

Nairobi, Kenya: The Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) has taken over a case in which three suspects were arrested at the Garden City Mall while in possession of a harmless device Tuesday evening.

Police said the device was not an improvised explosive device but was “an amateurish collection of phones wires tapped together to look like a bomb”.

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