One of the four Al-Shabaab militants who stormed Garissa University College and killed 148 people has been identified as a promising Kenyan lawyer who graduated from a local public university.
Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi, was the son of Abdullahi Daqare, the chief of Bulla Jamhuri location in Mandera County.
His family reported to the authorities in 2014 that he had gone missing and that they suspected he had gone to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab militants.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said Abdirahim Abdullahi was one of the four gunmen who attacked the Garissa University College campus on Thursday, killing nearly 150 people.
His father Chief Abdullahi of Bulla said: “I buried Rahim long ago but the fact that my own blood took the lives of 100 innocents gives me enough regrets in life and has forever taken away my hopes of living humbly.”
Abdirahim was identified after the Kenya Defence Forces paraded four bodies of the slain terrorists in the streets of Garissa for identification.
Five people were also arrested in connection with the attack that saw 147 students killed and scores injured.
The mastermind of the attack, Mohamed Mohamud aka Dulyadeyn, is a Kenyan of Somali origin.