Kenya police hold Nairobi bus blast suspect

Nairobi - Kenyan police on Sunday detained a suspect in connection with an explosion on a Nairobi bus that killed six people, the latest in a string of unclaimed attacks as the country marks 50 years of independence.
The death toll from Saturday's blast rose to six on Sunday after two injured people died from their wounds overnight, police said.

Nairobi police chief Benson Kibue said a suspect was being questioned over the attack on the 32-seat vehicle whose rear end was blown out by the blast.

"We have one suspect who was arrested soon after the incident. He is assisting us in the investigations," Kibue said, but he cautioned that it was to early to say whether he was "directly involved in the attack".
A warrant has also been issued for the arrest of a second suspect. Police published a photo of the male suspect and called on people to come forward with any information.

Police are working to determine whether the powerful explosion was caused by a grenade or an improvised explosive device and whether it was placed in the bus, carried by a passenger or flung from outside.
"We lost two of the victims in hospital where about 30 others are still admitted," Kibue said earlier on Sunday. "We now have six people dead out of that incident."

The blast hit several cars near the bus, killing at least one of the motorists, according to witnesses.
The ill-fated bus came from Nairobi's Eastleigh neighbourhood, dubbed "Little Mogadishu" because it is mainly populated by Somali immigrants and Kenyans of Somali origin.