Kenya arrests two more over Garissa university attack

Kenyan security forces have captured two more people over the the terrorist attack on the Garissa Univesity College earlier this month that killed 147 people and injured over 70. The two are suspected of financing the attack.

Islamist cleric Sheikh Mohammed Mursi and businessman Zadock Agutu were arrested as part of an ongoing probe into the university massacre, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

The two appeared in a Nairobi court late on Tuesday as police requested their custody for 30 and five days respectively, pending an investigation.

The authorities have said that they are investigating the two suspects' bank accounts and mobile phone records.

Prosecutor Duncan Ondimu said the two were allegedly in contact with the main suspect behind the massacre, Mohammed Kuno, a senior official of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group that had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Kuno, a Kenyan-Somali, was the headmaster at an Islamic school in Garissa and has been blamed for several attacks in Kenya.

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday had appointed a team to help prosecutors investigate the Garissa attack "to establish possible criminal culpability of individual officers or relevant security committees".

Police have so far nabbed several suspects in connection with Garissa attack.