Emergency services rush to the blast scene in Mombasa at the Kenol/Kobil petrol station opposite Coast Bus terminus on April 3, 2014. PHOTO/NATION
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Death toll has risen to four following three explosions that rocked Mombasa’s Central Business District.
The blasts ripped apart a Chania Travellers bus, shattering windows and mangling metal, sending residents in the coastal city into a panic. Chania Travellers plies the Thika-Mombasa-Malindi route.
The explosion also ripped off the rear of a bus christened Sharter Link that was parked next to the one that bore the brunt of the blast.
The other blast went off in Nyali near one of the popular resorts but no one was injured.
The blasts came at a time when police have heightened security over looming threats from Al Shabaab radicals who have previously blasted away at public places.
Eye witnesses and emergency rescue workers told the Sunday Nation that they had counted at least three who had succumbed to injuries at the blast at the Kenol/Kobil petrol station opposite Coast Bus terminus.
Police and rescue workers rushed off thirteen people to Coast General Provincial Hospital.
Heavily armed police and emergency services rushed to the scenes of the blasts to rescue the injured.
There was confusion as members of the public, anxious to see what had taken place milled around the scene as emergency workers rushed to the rescue.
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