Garissa massacre mastermind was ‘killed in convoy’

The alleged mastermind of the Garissa massacre was killed when troops attacked the convoy in which he was travelling in Somalia’s port city of KIsmayo, the security minister of Somalia’s Jubaland region has said. 

A total of 16 people, including four senior leaders of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, were killed in the operation carried out by troops from the governments of Somalia and Jubaland, said Abdirashid Janan. 

Al-Shabab’s assault on the Garissa University College in neighbouring Kenya in April 2015 left 148 people dead.  It was the deadliest attack in Kenya since al-Qaeda’s bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998, which killed 213 people.