Jennifer Muiruri I NATION The boot of a vehicle that was blown off by the bomb squad in Kayole on October 26, 2011.                

Police on Wednesday blew up a car abandoned by the roadside that was thought to have been rigged up with explosives.
An unidentified person, who had parked it at the busy Masimba matatu terminus in Kayole, had claimed it would explode and “kill many people.”
Officers from the police bomb disposal unit first examined the car with the help of sniffer dogs and after failing to detect any explosives, used their own devices to force the boot open.
The explosion ripped the boot as hundreds of residents scampered for safety.
The scene is near the house where 13 grenades were found after police raided a house and arrested its owner on Tuesday evening.
One of the experts who wired the explosive, and detonated it while 100 metres away was wearing bomb kit; heavy clothing that included a helmet.
The police action ended four hours of anxiety, during which the area had been cleared as terrified residents watched from a distance.
The car, a cream Nissan Sunny, was abandoned there at noon and its wreckage towed away at 4.30pm.

Officers from Kayole Police Station had cleared the busy terminus, cordoned off an area of about 200 metres on either side of the car for four hours until bomb experts arrived.
Kayole police boss Moses Lubisia said the owner of the vehicle – KAC 256D – had been identified.
Mr Lubisia added the man would be charged with various offences, because “he had given false information, causing anxiety, panic and fear”.
After parking the car, the man had flagged down a matatu and hopped in.
When he claimed the car would explode, Mr Lubisia told the Nation, he was loud enough and many people heard him.
Inside the vehicle, police found two 20-litre plastic containers and rugged paper bags.
Meanwhile a security cordon has been thrown around the country as the government moves to thwart possible terrorist attacks by Al-Shabaab.