Officers from the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have joined the ongoing probe into a terror attack that was staged at dusitD2 complex along 14 Riverside Drive in Westlands, Nairobi.
The Star reports that the FBI officers are working in collaboration with detectives from Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and other international agencies.
Already, detectives have arrested two prime suspects in connection with the attack. One of them was arrested in Ruaka area, Kiambu County while the other was nabbed in Nairobi’s Eastleigh estate on Wednesday.
“Subsequent investigations by the DCI have yielded arrest of two key suspects believed to have facilitated the attack and are in custody assisting Police with the investigations,” Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet says.
The death toll from the attack has risen to 21 after six more bodies were retrieved from the scene while one police officer, who was involved in the rescue mission, succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.
The fatalities include 16 Kenyans, one British national, one United States citizen and three persons of African descent whose identities are yet to be established.
Somalia-based Islamic terror organization, Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attack, says the attack was in retaliation to the United States President Donald Trump’s action to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli’s capital.
“The Mujahideen (holy warriors) carried out this operation … (as) a response to the witless remarks of U.S. president, Donald Trump, and his declaration of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of Israel” the extremist group says in a statement as quoted by Reuters.
Holy warriors my ass! These…
Holy warriors my ass! These criminal goons have murdered alot of innocent Kenyans senselessly: Westgate mall, passengers in a hijacked bus, restaurant/bar in Mombasa, Garrisa University and DustitD2 etc. How can our government be so weak as to allow a gang of gun wielding thugs terrorize a whole nation. They don’t represent anything. They are not freedom fighters. The are not liberating a country. Just idle and misguided lads who thinks they are men. Remember their song, ” we’ve lots of guns and once we get to Nairobi we’ll kill a lot of people” or some crap like that. Look it up. Murder and not any noble cause is their Creed. We should have demolished these clowns years ago but they are still a menace because Uhuru and his partner in crime Raila are busy dividing Kenya as their spheres of influence rather than defend her. Now FBI has stepped in to aid the weak helpless Kenyans. Pathetic! When shall we do things for ourselves without running to the white man to save us? The whole world knows Kenya is lost. We die for others and the folks we die for have nothing but contempt for us. Look it up! After the US bombing in Nairobi in 1998, Americans threw us to the dogs. While they paid handsomely to their American citizens for that terrorist attack, they passed a law in Washington DC and decided that Kenyans who were injured and died in that some bombing would not be compensated. But for the American embassy being in Nairobi,o our people wouldn’t have perished because terrorists were after Americans not Kenyans! May be we need to change our image and be worthy. How about black pride for self-awakening.