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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - An explosion in the Kenyan capital's packed business district Monday killed two people and injured more than 30, leaving behind a corpse with half his body blown away and sending hundreds of rush-hour commuters ducking for cover from flying shrapnel.
The cause of the blast outside the Ambassadeur Hotel was not immediately clear, but Police Commissioner Mohamed Hussein Ali said it was "something that somebody was carrying." In response to questions about whether the explosion was a suicide attack, he said: "That type of speculation is not factual at all."
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said initial investigations indicate that "the source of the explosion was extremely small," adding that there were no traces of "high explosives" at the scene.
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