Residents ordered to vacate estate in Lodwar over bomb scare
What you need to know:
- Peris Aureng said the boys ran away after she told them the object looked resembles a bomb.
- The police were also trying to establish where the boys found the bomb.
Police have ordered residents of Makuti Estate in Lodwar town to vacate their homes after a bomb was found in the compound.
Police on Tuesday afternoon secured the area and were waiting for bomb experts from Nairobi to detonate it.
According to residents, two boys found a metallic object and were struggling to open it.
They called a neighbour, Peris Aureng, to help them open it but she noticed that it looked like a bomb and called the police.
She said the boys ran away after she told them the object resembled a bomb.
"I suspected that it was a bomb that resembled the ones I have seen in action movies." she told journalists.
Turkana Central OCPD Kipkemboi Kirui said police had secured the area as they awaited the arrival of the bomb experts.
"It is a 60 millimetre bomb and has a capacity to destroy property within a one kilometre radius or a tall building." Mr Kirui said.
The police were also trying to establish where the boys found the bomb.