KENYA: Leader of Kenya university attack killed

Mogadishu - The suspected organiser of the April 2015 jihadist attack on Garissa University in eastern Kenya, which left 148 people dead, has been killed in Somalia, a local Somali official said on Wednesday.

Kenyan police officers take positions outside the Garissa University College after gunmen attacked the institution. (AP Photo)

"Sixteen armed men, four of them senior commanders including Mohamed Mohamud Ali known as Dulyadin... were killed by the Somali commandos and the special forces of the Jubaland," Abdirashid Janan, minister of state security for Jubaland, an autonomous region in southern Somalia.

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