{"id":32237,"date":"2017-02-01T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/it-isn-t-a-bomb-at-technical-institute-of-kenya\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T03:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T03:16:01","slug":"it-isn-t-a-bomb-at-technical-institute-of-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/it-isn-t-a-bomb-at-technical-institute-of-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"It isn&#8217;t a bomb at Technical Institute of Kenya, Nairobi \u2014 police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police closed Moktar Daddah Street in Nairobi on Wednesday morning after an object suspected to be a bomb was found at the entrance to the Technical Institute of Kenya.}<\/p>\n<p>Unknown people placed the jungle-greenish object on the lowermost riser of the stairs to the college.<\/p>\n<p>Students who arrived early for classes spotted the suspicious object before reporting the matter to police.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, Central Station Police chief Robinson Thuku said bomb experts had established the object was not a bomb.<\/p>\n<p>It was a motor vehicle spare part and it had been removed from the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped workers and students at the college, with those inside the five-storey building desperately seeking to get out.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers at the scene had a hard time trying to control crowds.                       <\/p>\n<p>The incident comes barely a week after the National Police Service dismissed a letter that did the rounds on social media and warning of an impending terror attack at an unspecified learning institution in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The document was purportedly signed by Nairobi criminal investigations chief Nicholas Kamwende.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17946 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/gif\/pomb.gif\" alt=\"Curious onlookers at the entrance to the Technical Institute of Kenya in Nairobi where a suspicious object was found on February 1, 2017. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police closed Moktar Daddah Street in Nairobi on Wednesday morning after an object suspected to be a bomb was found at the entrance to the Technical Institute of Kenya.} Unknown people placed the jungle-greenish object on the lowermost riser of the stairs to the college. Students who arrived early for classes spotted the suspicious object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32237"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32237"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}