NAKURU, Kenya June 29 -Security officers drawn from the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) domiciled at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) successfully detonated an explosive on Wednesday June 28.
The device had been discovered and widely shared on social media by the World Rally Competition (WRC) spectators who thronged Naivasha last weekend.
Some of the spectators posed with the device, oblivious of the danger they were exposing themselves to. However, none of them attempted to hit it.
Unexploded ordnance are explosive bombs, shells or land mines that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation, even decades after they were used or discarded.
“If any of many people who were around during the Safari Rally event attempted to pick and hit this device on the ground then we could be talking of a different story,” a senior security officer at Gilgil Police station told Shahidi.
The military ordnance discovered to be a 105 mm bomb is believed to have been dropped in the area by military officers training in the area and the wider Kedong area.
The device was found at Half Hill area on the famous Soysambu ranch in Naivasha.
A team of police officers led by the Sub County Police Commander Gilgil flanked by the Kenya Wildlife Officers from Gilgil and Soysambu ranch guards, jointly with officers drawn from Bomb Disposal Unit found it after a daylong search.
The Safari Rally Spectators discovered the device on June 24 and video recorded making it gone viral since then.
The team advised members of the public to be alert as they traverse the thick forested ranch and equally warned against tampering with the said discovered explosives but instead, to be reporting to police immediately for necessary action.
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