A Kenyan man has been arrested in connection with a bomb attack in North Kivu that left 10 people dead and 39 others injured on Sunday.
Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) identified the suspect as 29-year-old Abdirizak Muktar Garad, who comes from Wajir county.
According to the local Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) Spokesman Anthony Mualushayi, after an initial investigation at the scene of the attack, the Kenyan suspect was arrested on suspicion of having been involved in the planning and execution of the attack now associated with the Allied Democratic Force (ADF).
Detectives at the Anti-Terror Police Unit in Nairobi said they were counterchecking the details of the suspect for more background.
In yet another incident, another Kenyan, Salim Rashid Mohamed aka Chotara, was arrested in DRC following months of hunting by Congolese authorities in January last year.
Salim and several other suspects were said to have crossed into the DRC via Uganda.
The bomb attack happened during a service at a Protestant church in the eastern DRC. Mualushayi said the attack was likely carried out by the ADF, a Ugandan armed group that has pledged allegiance to ISIL (ISIS).