Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-20 17:07:04|Editor: Lu Hui
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NAIROBI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Kenya's major media outlets on Sunday.

-- With every new piece of information that has come to light about the perpetrators of the 14 Riverside Drive attacks, it has become clearer that the authorities knew about Mahir Khalid Riziki, the suicide bomber. They had his photos, names and contacts of his relatives and friends, yet it is not clear why they failed to stop him from blowing himself up.

In a widely-shared CCTV footage, the suicide bomber is captured outside the Secret Garden Restaurant in the Dusit Complex moments before he blows himself up, killing an unknown number of people with him. (Sunday Nation)

-- The widow of one of the 14 Riverside attackers was on Friday night arrested by police in her house in Bakarani, Mombasa.

Suhaila Mwalim Bakari was taken into police custody following the identification of her husband, Mahir Khalid Riziki, as the suicide bomber in the Tuesday attack. It is not clear whether Suhalia became radicalized, but investigators say she was a confidant of her husband, lending her ears to his trials and tribulations while in Somalia every time he called her, demanding details about her current life while he remained in hiding. (Sunday Standard)

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