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Kenya Police plane carried daughter-in-law of airwing boss as Garissa University attack unfolded

NAIROBI: Questions have emerged after reports that a delay in flying the General Service Unit’s Recce Squad to Garissa on the morning of the attack was because the plane was allegedly held up in Mombasa on an unauthorised mission.

The plane is said to have arrived at Wilson Airport with the Kenya Police Airwing commandant Col (Rtd) Rogers Mbithi’s daughter-in-law and her two sons from Mombasa at 11.35am on the day of the attack.

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