Kenya: Blast in Nairobi kills at least one

Nairobi, June 11: A blast in central Nairobi killed at least one person today, a Reuters witness said.

Passersby said a small bomb had gone off in a waste paper bin at about 8 a.m. (1030 IST). A bloodied corpse lay on the pavement nearby, a Reuters witness in the Kenyan capital said.

''It was a very loud explosion. I thought it was a tyre burst but it was louder than that,'' Langat Justice, a 20-year-old student who witnessed the explosion, told Reuters near the chaotic scene.

''This is very unusual for Nairobi. Maybe this was a terror attack, we don't know,'' he added, as hundreds of people milled around and policemen tried to push them back from the scene.

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