Detectives from the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the DCI have been allowed to hold three people for 10 days after explosives were discovered in a Tahmeed Meru-bound bus.

This even as two more people, David Tindi Andala and John Kariuki Kung'u, were arrested on Tuesday evening in Meru where the parcel was to be received.

Lawrence Kioko Mutuku, the driver and his conductor, Said Rashida Amour, were both arrested on May 5, 2025, in Kanyonyo along the Kanyonyo-Embu highway.

The third suspect, Brenda Makhulungu Imboyoga, was arrested at Mundutsu village, Kakamega County, where the explosives were sent from.