{"id":12506,"date":"2014-02-13T01:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/airport-bombers-denied-bail-at-nairobi-court\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:48:22","slug":"airport-bombers-denied-bail-at-nairobi-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/airport-bombers-denied-bail-at-nairobi-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Bombers Denied Bail at Nairobi Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{Four Somali men charged in Kenya in connection with a blast last month at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) were denied bail on Wednesday after the country\u2019s top prosecutor appealed a lower court\u2019s decision to release them.}}<\/p>\n

A magistrate ruled that the four could be bailed if they paid a bond of Sh20 million each, but the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko made a fast-track application to the High Court to have the bail decision overturned.<\/p>\n

High Court judge Msagha Mbogholi ordered the suspension of the decision to grant bail, until Tobiko\u2019s application could be heard in full.<\/p>\n

The explosion took place on January 16 at a cafe adjacent to one of the terminal buildings in JKIA, the region\u2019s busiest transport hub. There were no casualties.<\/p>\n

Police initially played down the incident, insisting a \u201cloose light bulb\u201d had fallen into a waste paper basket.<\/p>\n

After a bullet-ridden car containing a dead body and explosives was found the following morning at a housing estate near the airport, they were obliged to change their story.<\/p>\n

Hassan Abdi Mohamed, Mohamed Osman Ali, Yusuf Warsame and Garad Hassan Fer were charged a week ago with being behind the attack.<\/p>\n

Leonard Bwire, an officer with the police anti-terrorism unit, said the four had acquired Kenyan passports illegally.<\/p>\n

Since Kenya sent troops into southern Somalia in October 2011 to help fight the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents, it has been hit by a series of attacks.<\/p>\n

The Shabaab claimed last September\u2019s attack on Nairobi\u2019s Westgate mall, in which at least 67 people were killed.<\/p>\n

Grenades have been hurled into restaurants in crowded areas in Nairobi as well as on the popular tourist Indian Ocean coast, and the remote northeast region bordering Somalia has seen a string of attacks.<\/p>\n

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