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Device found in Kenyan shopping mall not explosive: police

Xinhua, September 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Police in Kenya has said a device found in a shopping mall in the outskirts of the capital Nairobi on Tuesday was not an improvised explosive device.

Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett said the device was "an amateurish collection of phones wires tapped together to look like a bomb."

Bomb experts arrived at the Garden City Mall minutes after the discovery and disrupted it using a small charge for safety measures in a controlled explosion.

"The explosion-like sound was out of the explosive charge that was introduced to the device. The device was found not to be containing any explosive and hence did not qualify to be an improvised explosive device," Boinett said in a statement issued in Nairobi.

The device was found 15:30 local time, causing panic among the shoppers in the mall which features 33,000 square metres of retail space. Police also arrested three people.

Calm has been restored at the mall following quick response, the police chief said.

The Garden City Mall, which opened in July as part of a 250 million U.S. dollar project, is one of the newest big shopping centres in Nairobi. Enditem