One of the four al-Shabab terrorists who attacked a northeastern university in Kenya on Thursday, April 2, has been identified as Abdirahim Abdullahi, son of a government official.
One of University attackers identified as govt official's son
The radicalized man was described as a former gifted law graduate who had studied at the University of Nairobi.
A relative of one of the students massacred by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamists at a Kenyan University on Thursday.
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The attack on Garissa University college campus left 148 people dead.
Kenya’s interior ministry spokesman, Mwenda Njoka, said the terrorist’s father had made a police report that his son was missing.
“The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home … and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened,” Njoka told the Reuters.
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The Chief of Bulla Jamhuri in Mandera County is Abdullahi’s father.
Kenyan media described the radicalized man as a former gifted law graduate who had studied at the University of Nairobi.
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