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Police identify suicide bomber as radicalised Mahir Khalid from Mombasa

Suicide bomber Mahir Khalid Riziki.

The suicide bomber who blew himself up at the dusitD2 Hotel was a Mombasa born Al-Shabaab recruit who travelled to Somalia for training. 

Blown up in smithereens, the 25-year-old Mahir Khalid Riziki was born and brought up in Majengo area of Mombasa town.

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