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Kenya gunmen son of government official─── 08:10 Mon, 06 Apr 2015
Nairobi - The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the gunmen who attacked a Kenyan college where 148 people were killed.
Interior Ministry spokesperson Mwenda Njoka told Associated Press that Abdirahim Mohammed Abdullahi, one of the Islamic extremists who attacked Garissa University College, was the son of a government chief in Mandera County.
The chief had reported his son missing last year and said he feared that he had gone to Somalia. All four attackers were killed by Kenyan security forces on Thursday.
Five people have since been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic militants claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was retribution for Kenya deploying troops to Somalia to fight the extremist rebels.
AP
