Kenya offers reward for mastermind of Garissa massacre
After 147 killed in al-Shabab assault on university, authorities launch manhunt for Mohamed Mohamud
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Kenya is offering a 20-million shilling ($215,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of a man whom authorities have linked to Thursday’s bloody massacre in a university in the northeastern town of Garissa, according to Kenyan media reports.
At least 147 students were killed in the attack, which was claimed by Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamist group, marking the deadliest attack in the east African nation since US Embassy bombings in 1998 in which 213 were killed.
Kenyan authorities are seeking a man named Mohamed Mohamud, with aliases “Dulyadin” and “Gamadhere,” and are calling him “most wanted” and linked to the Thursday attack
“Seen this man? Report to the security agencies through the numbers provided. #KaaChonjo #GarissaAttack,” the Interior Ministry said on its official Twitter feed, also publishing a photo of Mohamud in a poster.
Seen this man? Report to the security agencies through the numbers provided. #KaaChonjo #GarissaAttack pic.twitter.com/3K3EL3FyoK
— Ministry of Interior | Kenya (@InteriorKE) April 2, 2015
Hurling grenades and firing automatic rifles, masked al-Shabab gunmen stormed the Garissa University campus as students were sleeping, shooting dead dozens before setting Muslims free and holding Christians and others hostage.
There are “147 fatalities confirmed in the Garissa attack,” the national disaster operations center said in a statement, confirming the siege was now over with all attackers dead.
“The operation at Garissa University College has ended, with all four terrorists killed,” the center said after the attack, which lasted some 16 hours from before dawn until well after dark.
At least 79 people were also wounded in the assault, which began when the first grenades were used before dawn to blast open the gates of the university, near the lawless border with war-torn Somalia.
In the final hour before darkness fell, Kenyan troops stormed the student dormitory where the gunmen were holed up as explosions and heavy gunfire rang out. Troops then continued to search the campus for any possible insurgents.
Thursday’s attack was claimed by al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab fighters, the same insurgents who carried out the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi in September 2013, when four gunmen killed at least 67 people in a four-day siege.
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