Wife to Dusit suicide bomber arrested in Mombasa

Identity of suicide bomber at 14 Riverside revealed

The wife  to Dusit suicide bomber Mahir Khalid Riziki has been arrested by the police.

The woman, who was said to be on the run, was nabbed by a special team of detectives in Bakarani, Mombasa and taken in for questioning.

The father of the 25-year-old attacker was also arrested in a similar swoop in Majengo.

CCTV cameras captured Riziki blowing himself up at exactly 3:05:51pm outside a restaurant within the complex.

Shortly after, people are seen scampering for safety past the explosion site.

Detectives have revealed that Riziki was recruited into the terror world by Ramadhan Hamisi Kufungwa, now in Somalia, after attending prayers at Musa mosque.

For almost a decade, the mosque has been associated with radicalisation, recruitment of al Shabaab and religious extremism.

Efforts to flush out the radical elements have been ongoing.

Intelligence reports say Mahir has been on anti-terror police unit’s radar since 2014, when he was part of an al Shabaab team that was killing security officers in the coast region.

He the fled to Tanzania when his image was circulated by police as a wanted criminal, before he moved to Somalia in 2015 and confirmed to his family that he had joined the terror group.

Detectives are also probing his wife, Suhaila Mwalim Bakari, who is said to have been in contact with the attacker in November and December last year, yet she did not disclose this information to the police.

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