The arrests come after many months of a multinational investigation and tracking of the activities and people involved in what is suspected to be the source of improvised explosives that that were used in a string of terror attacks against security forces last year.
In a rare multinational collaboration, the operation to hunt down the people behind the bomb factory brought together Kenya’s Anti Terrorism Police Unit, Kenya Defence Forces, and American and British spy agencies.
Paramilitary troops found wires, detonators and mixers to turn the chemicals into bombs during a police operation that left most of the populous Eastlands estate in a lockdown for three weeks. Neighbours had told investigators that potassium chlorate and ammonium chlorate had been packed with wires and detonators into vehicles at the compound, a paramilitary official said.
- People Daily
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