Explosion hits downtown Nairobi

[TomClash]

Source: Independent

An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in the downtown area of Kenyan capital Nairobi today, wounding an unknown number of people.

The force of the blast ripped apart the one-story building's aluminium roof, but a high-rise building with a glass exterior right next to the blast did not appear to sustain major damage.

There was no immediate word on casualties or what caused the blast.

People with bloody wounds received medical care immediately after the blast, as authorities tried to usher hundreds of people in the street away from the scene.

TV images showed thick black smoke billowing out of the building in the moments after the blast. The smoke then turned white.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/explosion-hits-downtown-nairobi-7793513.html

[TomClash]

1. Kenyan PM - Nairobi Blast Act of Terror

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/05/nairobi-blast-an-act-of-terror-kenyan-pm/

[Warpy]

2. The police seemed to think it was electrical

and the description would tend to bear that out.

Electrical problems can make a hell of a bang!

I'd give this story the 72 hour sniff test.

[tawadi]

3. Al-Shabab militants won't be happy until Kenya is a complete violent mess, like Somalia