Kenyan police arrests prime suspect in Nairobi gas explosion
Al Jazeera
Six people died in the disaster and 280 others were injured in Thursday’s explosion in a Nairobi residential area.
Kenyan police on Tuesday said they had arrested the main suspect in a deadly gas blast that triggered a huge fireball in a densely populated area of Nairobi last week.
Six people died in the disaster and around 280 others were injured when a truck loaded with gas canisters exploded in the Embakasi neighbourhood of the city, late Thursday.
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said in a statement on X that its investigators have arrested the “prime suspect” who rented the gas depot where the blast occurred.
“To ensure that justice has had its way, the DCI teams that are investigating the dreadful incident have so far arrested main suspect Derrick Kimathi alongside three NEMA officials who were found culpable,” it added.
Officials from the National Environment Management Agency (NEMA) have been accused of wrongly giving a licence for the LPG filling and storage plant in such a densely populated area.
