Missile event in Muranga, Kigumo Murang’a area, Kenya on Sun 8th May 2022

Cape Town - Detectives based at the Forensic Bomb Disposal and Hazardous materials unit in Kenya are in possession of an 84mm mortar bomb that was discovered by a farmhand in Kigumo Murang’a county, according to a statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. Kenyan police said concerned villagers milled around the object, some arguing “that it was a missile, while others claimed that it was an overgrown arrow root”. Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), who responded immediately after being informed, identified the object as a mortar bomb. “The dangerous military ordnance, was most likely left behind by the British forces at the height of the Mau Mau uprising in 1953, when sections of Mt Kenya and Aberdare forests suffered aerial bombardment, to flush out Mau Mau fighters,” the DCI said in a statement, citing a report by BBC News Africa.