Since October 2011, when Kenya's troops went into neighbouring Somalia in pursuit of al Qaeda-linked insurgents blamed for kidnapping security personnel and Western tourists from its territory, it continues to suffer grenade and gun attacks. These attacks are complicated by camps housing the refugees from Somalia according to Kenyan authorities.
Kenyan police discovered a large quantity of explosives packed in boxes on a bus in the capital Nairobi. A senior officer said the explosives were being transported to the coastal region. It was not clear who was behind the consignment of 403 rolls of ammonium nitrate.
The East Africa's biggest economy has been plagued with nightmare over attacks which continue to scare off tourists and investors. Kenya, being on the Indian Ocean coast and bordering Somalia, is vulnerable to the pirates and militants activities.
Patrick Oduma, the officer in charge of police in Nairobi's central business district, said the bus's driver has been arrested and was being questioned over the explosives, which were originally offloaded from a bus that had arrived from neighbouring Tanzania. "The parcel of cartons disguised as books were destined to be transported to Voi," Oduma told Reuters, referring to a town 142 km (92 miles) inland from the port city of Mombasa.
"The explosives, which are rolls of ammonium nitrate, can be used to bring down buildings," he said. Oduma declined to speculate on what the explosives might have been intended for. He said they had been handed to bomb experts and the Kenya Anti Terrorism Police.
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