Investigations into Tuesday’s bloody terror attack have revealed the name of the suicide bomber who blew himself at the Dusit Hotel as part of the attack in which at least 22 people lost their lives.
According to detectives, the man is 25-year-old Mahir Khalid Riziki, who was born and brought up in Mombasa.
“Khalid is the one who blew himself up out there,” a police source said, “we are trying to establish the identities of the four others.
Footage from a CCTV recording from the scene shows the terrorist walking outside a manicured lawn before he stands outside Secret Gardens, where he is passed by two people who seem oblivious of what he was doing as he appears to speak to the phone before he blows himself up.
It had earlier on be thought that the explosion did not kill anyone else apart from the bomber. But details now reveal that the suicide bomber killed six people in the process. He is also believed to have arrived at the complex and stayed at a hotel room from where he walked down while communicating with other attackers who shot their way in.
He is said to have been radicalised by an Al Shabaab militant named as Ramadhan Hamisi, who is said to be in Somalia.