One of University attackers identified as govt official's son

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.

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.

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.