ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspect in the recent bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was arrested in Pakistan and handed over to Kenya, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

The suspect -- identified as Mohammad Sadik Howaida -- was arrested and interrogated soon after his arrival from Nairobi at the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 7 -- the day of the nearly simultaneous bombings that killed 257 people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, according to a ministry statement.

The statement further identified Howaida as an "Arab national," a phrase in Pakistan that usually means someone from anywhere in the Middle East.

A government source, who insisted on anonymity, told The Associated Press news agency that investigators suspected a link between Howaida and Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, who has been living in neighboring Afghanistan for the last two years.

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U.S. officials say bin Laden, a vocal critic of the United States who has been among the world's most militant sponsors of terrorism, was a possible suspect in the African bombings.

The source told AP that U.S. investigators who had gone to Pakistan followed Howaida after he was flown to Kenya.

Kenyans bury their dead

In Kenya, the bodies of dozens of bomb victims were transported to rural areas for burial on their own homesteads this weekend.

Large congregations attended church services in both Kenya and Tanzania where prayers were offered for the victims and their families.

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to leave Washington Monday for visits to Kenya and Tanzania as a show of support for those countries and to express condolences to the victims.

At the Nairobi city mortuary, where most of the 247 bodies of victims of the Kenyan blast had been stored, relatives were given free coffins -- provided by the Kenyan government -- and cash donations to cover the cost of transport to funeral sites.

Payments ranged from 10,000 shillings ($167) for funerals in the Nairobi area to 50,000 shillings ($833) for those in remote areas of Kenya.

Seventy bodies of victims of the Nairobi blast were still awaiting collection from the mortuary Sunday. Three of them were still unidentified. Some people were still missing.

Most of the 5,000 people -- mainly Kenyans -- who were injured in the blast have been allowed home after treatment, but over 200 were still in local hospitals, officials said. Many more were being treated as outpatients.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.