{"id":436486,"date":"2011-06-06T04:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/blast-witnesses-describe-bang-and-ball-of-fire\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T04:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:10:34","slug":"blast-witnesses-describe-bang-and-ball-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/blast-witnesses-describe-bang-and-ball-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast Witnesses Describe Bang And Ball of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"64.9109853357\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Muindi<\/p>\n<p>5 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 It was no ordinary blast, according to Mr Stephen Maina, a spare parts dealer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Maina recalls hearing a deafening blast then seeing a ball of fire and thick smoke that filled the Grogan area.<\/p>\n<p>He was a few metres away from a shipping container housing a shop from which the blast is believed to have emanated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were running all over the place,&#8221; he said at the Casualty department of Kenyatta National Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His brother John Karanja, who runs the shop that sells car parts, was seriously injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Karanja, 41, who had worked in the container for more than 10 years, was walking towards the shop when the blast occurred, throwing him on the ground before it crushed him against a car.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Maina, none of the 10 or so shops in the area stocked gas cylinders, which some people claim to have caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the shops compete to sell spare parts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Shabir Centre, a six-storey block of flats along the lower Kirinyaga Road, were not spared.<\/p>\n<p>Windows were shattered and household items tumbled from shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Michael Mitao, a resident of Block G at Shabir Centre, sustained cuts to the face and arms when his living room window was shattered.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Anne, who spoke from Park Road Nursing Home, told of items in the house spinning and the ground in the kitchen being elevated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fridge was shaking and cutlery was strewn all over when my husband came and grabbed my hand. He was screaming: leave the house, leave the house!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ayaan Altaf, a one-month-old who was sleeping at the time of the explosion, sustained facial cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Altaf Adam, his father said: &#8220;I heard a loud blast and then my son started to cry. I found him bleeding from the cuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Osman Hassan Haji, also a resident of Shabir Centre, said three of his relatives were injured.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Mahmmud Hassan, and father, Hassan Ahmed Haji, are at the intensive care unit of the MP Shah Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His father Bilal Ismail, who was repairing his car outside the building, sustained burns and cuts on his body.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106060005.html\" title=\"Blast Witnesses Describe Bang And Ball of Fire\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blast Witnesses Describe Bang And Ball of Fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Benjamin Muindi 5 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 It was no ordinary blast, according to Mr Stephen Maina, a spare parts dealer. Mr Maina recalls hearing a deafening blast then seeing a ball of fire and thick smoke that filled the Grogan area. He was a few metres away from a shipping container housing a shop from which the blast is believed to have emanated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":436487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-436486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blast Witnesses Describe Bang And Ball of Fire - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/blast-witnesses-describe-bang-and-ball-of-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blast Witnesses Describe Bang And Ball of Fire - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Benjamin Muindi 5 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 It was no ordinary blast, according to Mr Stephen Maina, a spare parts dealer. 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