Bomb link to Kenya factory blast

Five factory workers died in the explosion

Kenyan investigators have reportedly found the remnants of five bombs at a steel recycling factory where five people died on Monday night in a blast.

Eight other people are in hospital suffering from serious burns.

At the time of the explosion, the manager had speculated that artillery shells may have been mistakenly loaded into the furnance.

The factory, 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Nairobi, recycles 150 tons of scrap metal per day.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe, however, has told the BBC he could not confirm remnants of bombs had been found.

He says that the company whose factory was destroyed sources some of its scrap metal from southern Sudan and parts of Kenya where British and American troops train, and there was a possibility of shells being collected.