Kenyan police said on Friday they have detained another man suspected to be part of a terrorist group which tried to shoot down an Israeli jetliner with more than 260 passengers on board.
Five minutes after the missile attack on the plane leaving Mombasa airport on November 28, suicide bombers attacked the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel near the Indian Ocean city, killing 10 Kenyans, three Israelis and the bombers.
”We have detained yesterday (Thursday) for further
investigations a Kenyan of Indian origin suspected to be part of the group, bringing the total number of arrests to 14,” Kenya’s top investigator William Lang’at said.
Lang’at also said his investigation team was following a new lead linking the missiles fired at the Israeli plane to a Somali boat detained in Mombasa for illegal entry since arriving at the port on November 23.
”It has been discovered that the paint on the missiles was not its original one” Lang’at said, adding that the newer paint was almost the same colour as that of the boat. We have taken paint samples from the boat and missiles to the laboratories for testing to see if they are the same,” Lang’at added.
Six Pakistanis and three Somalis in the boat are being held for questioning about the twin attacks.
The boat’s crew said when they first arrived in Mombasa that they had come to repair leaks. – Sapa-AFP