BREAKING NEWS: Police officers among four dead in Pangani explosion

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
By CYRUS OMBATI

Pangani Police Station. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP

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NAIROBI, KENYA: At least four people including two police officers were Wednesday night killed in a car explosion outside Pangani police station in Nairobi in an apparent suicide incident.

The explosion happened at the gate of the police station after an explosion that was in the car went off.

Police boss David Kimaiyo who visited the scene confirmed the deaths.

Other police officers said the blast went off killing two police officers and the apparent two bombers they had arrested earlier on without knowing they had the explosives.

The officers had intercepted a salon car at about 8 pm at the nearby Pangani roundabout in the area and decided to board it.

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