{"id":13197,"date":"2014-03-18T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-arrests-2-after-bombs-found-in-car\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:19:40","slug":"kenya-arrests-2-after-bombs-found-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-arrests-2-after-bombs-found-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Arrests 2 After bombs ‘Found in Car’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{Police in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa say they have arrested two people who were driving a car with two improvised bombs hidden inside it.}}<\/p>\n

The suspects, one Kenyan and the other of Somali origin, were planning to attack an unspecified target, they say.<\/p>\n

The arrests followed a tip off, a police official added.<\/p>\n

Kenya is on a heightened state of alert after militants from Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamist group attacked a shopping centre in Nairobi last year.<\/p>\n

Security was increased further following Monday’s incident.<\/p>\n

“We have not established where the target was, but we have detained two terror suspects who were in the vehicle,” said Henry Ondiek of the Mombasa Criminal Investigation Department.<\/p>\n

“We were tipped off that the two were headed for an attack on an unspecified place and we laid an ambush,” he said.<\/p>\n

Two homemade bombs were found in the car along with a mobile phone, which could have been used as a detonator, according to police.<\/p>\n

In last September’s attack, at least 67 people died when al-Shabab stormed the Westgate shopping centre.<\/p>\n

In February more than 100 people appeared in court in Mombasa accused of being members of al-Shabab, after a raid on a mosque.<\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab has carried out a series of attacks in Kenya in what it says is retaliation for Nairobi’s decision to deploy troops to Somalia.<\/p>\n

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