Bartamaha (Nairobi):- An attacker hurled an explosive device into a police van in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Friday and it blew up, killing one officer, a police commander said.

The attack took place in a predominantly Somali suburb of city.

“The doctors have confirmed it, he is dead,” Francis Mburu, the Nairobi provincial administrative commander, told Reuters.

“There were at least two officers in the Land Rover pick-up. A man threw what we suspect could be a grenade or another device into the vehicle, and it exploded,” said Mburu. The second officer was being treated in hospital.

Mburu said there was no immediate theory on who could be behind the attack, but anti-terrorism police in the east African country were investigating the blast. “We are trying to establish the motive of the attack,” he said.

Mburu said the police officers were attached to Kenya’s provincial administration, not the regular police, and were part of the escort of a district commissioner in the capital.

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Source:- Reuters.

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